Comments on Señorita in the City: A teacher's blog: To catch a plagiarist

Thanks, New York's Brightest!

2012-02-11T14:37:08.800-05:00

Thanks, New York's Brightest!

Senorita, I could really use some of your skills...

2012-01-30T21:25:03.402-05:00

Senorita,

I could really use some of your skills right now. My students are starting a "Favorite Mathematician" project next month (not something I want to do... but my school forces all of us to do this project...)and from what I've heard from the ELA teacher, they are BIG cheaters/plagarizers. You were absolutely right in giving them zeros, and their suffering grades will serve as a lesson well taught. Sad that you had to teach them (sophomores and juniors! So sad.) this and not their English teacher. My kids are only in 8th grade, but I am going to go over my expectations first and then check with Google on any instances of plagarism. I really want my school to adopt turnitin.com as a way to check for plagarism, but the administration has refused the general teacher agreement many times. Your method was really helpful, and I plan on using that in the future!

Glad (and also disappointed) to find out I'm n...

2012-01-29T20:32:35.245-05:00

Glad (and also disappointed) to find out I'm not the only one!

I so understand! I did something similiar for Dia ...

2012-01-29T20:01:35.393-05:00

I so understand! I did something similiar for Dia de la raza and for Dia de los muertos. Even after having a large discussion about the difference between using and citing a source and downright plagarism, just like you did, I don't think any of the students realized my husband (also a teacher) and I would type their papers into Google to find where they got their papers from. Even having them write by hand in English, they just copied off the Internet. I made sure to tell their English teachers so they too could get after them about plagarism.