Teacher Accueses Me Of Plagiarism When I Didn’t Do It!?
Posted by IT CommentatorOct 4
We have a research paper to do in language arts (its a history/reading/english grade all together worth 200 pts) It’s a big thing. My topic is The Battle of Quebec in the American Revolutionary War. We were suppose to go to our sources, and get the info on notecards then paraphrase on to our essays. (I paraphrased from the site to my notecards to my paper). We got our rough drafts back today from our teacher and she highlighted everything in pink that she thought was plagiarised. Most kids had 1 or 2 sentences highlighted. I had my whole paper highlighted when i DIDN”T plagiarise. According to her logic, she thinks we plagiarised if we used big words that she thinks we don’t know. In my article I used big words because i KNOW the bigs words. SO she wants me to re-write my own words a 2nd time to make them sound un-intelligent. I truely didn’t plagiarise, and she forgets the fact that i’m in the Writting Club in school. I got INTO the club by writting about battles (I love writing about battles/strategies) but she forgets that. I’m so mad! She wants us to write stupid. If we sound intelectual thats a ‘red flag’ to her. And then at the end of the day today I went up to her and asked her a question about something TOTALLY different (about a different article we are researching) and she was sour, nasty, and sarcastic with me.
I’m not going to re-write my own words a 2nd time to make them sound less smart. Thats just wrong..
what do you guys think?
(quick note: when I write I try my best to use a better vocabulary then I do when normal speaking. And If she doesn’t stop bitching to me I’m so close to leaving the Writing Team..)
i’m not going to have my writting be judged so negatively…
Honestly, I have trouble with this, because there are so many errors in your posting that it is a little hard to believe that you wrote an incredible paper. Furthermore, most teachers don’t just decide to mark something as “plagiarized”. These days, at the very least they will Google something if it looks suspicious. In most cases, they are using turnitin.com to see if what you have written matches a previously-written work.
If you really didn’t plagiarize, and you had to use the procedure you described, you could show her your original sources, your notecards, and your final paper to show that you paraphrased what was written significantly.
ask her to find and show you the text you plagarized. this can be easily done with google. u shouldnt need to prove your innocence, the teacher is the one that needs to prove you guilty. if she cant find the source you “plagarized” from, then its not plagarization.
show ur teacher be like yo teach show me how i plagerized and if the teacher still objects to ur paper throw in references and label them then ur teacehr cant complain