Timeline for I Plagiarised, what punishment can I expect?
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| Jan 4, 2016 at 14:53 | comment | added | Ramrod | Oddly enough, in the US I know of a professor who told the graders to let the students know they see a lot of similarities in their work. The professor went on to say that he didn't want to deal with it. | |
| Jun 29, 2014 at 9:42 | comment | added | jinawee | I always feel strange with this questions, since here in Spain nobody cares if you plagiarised or not (except one or two professors I had). | |
| Jun 29, 2014 at 2:39 | comment | added | JeffE | I've personally witnessed a student not getting his degree over plagiarism. — So have I, more than once. At least one such student also lost a visa and a job offer. | |
| Jun 29, 2014 at 2:35 | comment | added | Ari Trachtenberg | Our department has an academic misconduct committee on it, which includes a couple students. You should know that the students are by far the toughest on misconduct cases (especially those that are discovered, not volunteered), and I've personally witnessed a student not getting his degree over plagiarism. | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 20:40 | comment | added | JeffE | In my department, the penalty for plagiarizing part of one assignment is a zero on that homework, for the first offense. The penalty for a second offense in the same class is an F in the class. All offenses are reported to department, college, and campus, to catch patterns across multiple classes. Failing three classes for cheating normally results in suspension. Plagiarizing on half of the homework in three different classes means about 10-15 separate offenses. No, expulsion doesn't seem overly harsh at all. | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 19:16 | comment | added | Paul Hiemstra | Also, the OP did not copy an entire masters thesis, but a subset of the homework assignments. Expelling a student for that seems too harsh. | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 3:34 | comment | added | chipbuster | Hell, as a grader I've caught people who were obviously cheating on multiple assignments, and the end response was to do nothing. (Granted the total HW was only 10% of the grade, but still...) | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 2:06 | comment | added | aeismail | I've also caught students clearly cheating as a grader, reported it, and found that the students in question got a slap on the wrist. So I don't know if I would agree with JeffE's assessment of the "most likely" punishment here. | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 21:45 | comment | added | user17965 | Thanks for the indication of the punishment. I know why I did this, I know it is a matter of my past, and I know I will never do it again. | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 21:35 | history | answered | JeffE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |