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candyflip · 11-02-2016, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Sly

Anyone else note that her first reaction was to go to higher administration level instead of addressing the issue straight on with the professor?

Also immediately jumping on social media.

Safe spaces are creating a generation of conflict avoidance. Who will the kids run to when the higher-ups run from conflict as well?

There are very few people in the comments support her and those who are seem a bit off. This one basically lays it all out.

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After reading several versions of the story, and viewing a couple different photos of the paper, I think that this student is a self-entitled little twit who cannot take some well-deserved criticism.

I am a former English teacher. I have taught at the middle school, high school, and even was a student assistant the English Department in college.

She is not writing at the level of a McNair Fellow or a Dean?s List student. Her transitions between sentences are awkward, and she makes several errors in her writing.

In the tiny snippet where the professor writes, ?this is not your word,? she is ending her sentence with an exclamation point. One does not do this in the dispassionate, distanced writing of the scholarly world.
?Hence? is a conjunctive adverb. In scholarly writing, one does not begin a sentence with a conjunction. Hence is also a rather archaic word. It, along with thence and whence, was on its way out decades ago. ?Hence? is not ANYBODY?S word and it hasn?t been for over thirty years.

She is using an abbreviation for ?United States.? One does not abbreviate in scholarly writing. In another, larger, snippet of the paper, I saw that her paper is peppered with personal pronouns. This is another error.
She needs to remember that she is paying tuition to learn. The professor gave her a wonderful break. Instead of grading the paper, she instructed the student to work on it some more. Instead of being grateful, this student turned on the professor and is casting her comments in the worst possible light.

Admonishing a student to indicate where she has copied and pasted is NOT an accusation that she plagiarized (in my day, we used the word ?quote? but today, due to print resources being replaced with digital content, the term copy and paste is used).

It is nothing more than a request that she format her quotes properly in accordance to whatever style the professor requires (MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian).

For example, in MLA, one should place quotations longer than four typed lines in a free-standing block of typewritten lines, and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, indented one inch from the left margin, and maintain double-spacing. Your parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.

Given the poor writing in what little I have seen of her paper, I do not doubt that she quoted improperly.

An accusation of plagiarism would mean an appointment in the Dean?s office, with real-world consequences that might range from a notation on her academic record or even expulsion. not a chance for a do-over. You were never accused of plagiarism except within your own mind.

Move on people. There is nothing to this story but a butt-hurt drama queen who wants to believe that she is smarter than she actually is and who loves playing the victim card should anyone smudge her superior sense of self with a dose of reality

Young woman, get thee to a writing coach.

Oh, and I am of mixed heritage as well. My people are being beaten and arrested at Standing Rock right now. Go there, and learn what racism really looks like.