Group work is such a freaking myth. I am so glad I am done with school, because being in the school of business, EVERYTHING was group work and I was lucky enough to have the same kids in my groups over and over except for one class. But this group work bullcrap is a myth. In all of my internships and jobs since college, there has been no group work or "projects".
Turn him in ASAP. Academic fraud is the worst thing a student can do scholastically, and the fact that he did it off of wikipedia means he probably doesn't belong in college anyhow.
I assume you still have his emailed work? Since you're a Laker fan, you may want to consider blackmailing him prior to turning him in.
So this 40 year old father decides to cut and paste instead of rewriting it so he can spend time with his 7 year old daughter . . and the majority wants him turned in and to get in trouble over this. I'm glad you handled it the way you did darizzle. Happy Holidays to all! Now if that was Steve Blake . . . that is a diferent matter.
NS... and what's with the age bias thing? So he's 40? So what? I've seen many more stupid people aged 18-25 than stupid 40 year old people. If people aged 40 are supposed to be the epitome of all knowledge and instruction then why don't you twerps show a little more respect? Stupid kids. Stupid babies. Stupid babies need the most attention.
Was this the "Barack Obama Grading Curve"? Seriously, congrats. Put those idiots in yoru rearview mirror and never deal with them again.
BUMP! Guess what, I still hate group projects. So after a weekend of nobody responding to my emails I will have to finish this portion of the group project by myself. Group Projects were invented for lazy teachers...there is nothing "real world" about it
Awesome. I had a girl last semester who turned in an obviously plagiarized paper, then explained it by saying "I'm sorry, I was really busy and had my friend write it for me, I didn't think she would have just copied something". Seriously. She then went on to suggest I contact one of her professors at the school she goes to full time (this was a summer class) to vouch for her character.
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Too much to follow in the entire thread, but let me give you my two-cents. I think plagiarism is now taken VERY seriously in colleges and universities, and it is really because many professors have projects and styles based to teach students to learn using the old disipline of research and creative thought. The problem is the best way for a busy 40-something year old executive to find a history of IBM to put somewhere in their document would be to Google it (just like you said) and copy and paste the best summary (likely Wiki). So he did just what you would expect a busy, educated professional would do in the modern work force. So props to him. I wouldn't want to give one of my employees a project and have them have to re-invent the wheel in order to come up with the end product. That's a waste of my money and lowers my share-holder value. So like I said, it is taken seriously, because today's modern student that would succeed in the market would be finding the best use of their time and using the internet or information age to quickly complete the task that was assigned to them, and it was up to the instructor to make assignments that utiliize this modern "plagiarism" and somehow incorporate it into their project along with the creative thought that goes beyond it. Anyway, like I said, just my two-cents. But I've always thought if someone could plagiarize and actually turn it in, then the instructor was too stuck in teaching the 90's way of instructing. Probably not much you can do to fix it if we're talking a community college or state school like PSU or OSU, but still it is sad to know some professors still haven't caught up with the age and try and preserve their antique styles using obsolete things like "plagiarism" as their reason to not get into the next century of copying and pasting information already written for you.
