School rant
Apr. 6th, 2003 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinjunWhy is it that people don't understand a maximum limit. They insist that they just have to add a paragraph here, a paragraph there, until the 12 page limit is well over 12 pages. And not only that, why do people in a Master's program not understand plaguerism rules (even if I can't spell it?)
Bah.
Bah.
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Date: 2003-04-06 07:07 pm (UTC)Plagiarism. And they likely don't understand the rules because they never bothered following them in undergrad either.
Plus what Kyle said.
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Date: 2003-04-06 07:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-07 08:29 am (UTC)Though, I think the plagiarism thing has more to do with a fairly universal, though by no means entire, misunderstanding of just what plagiarism actually is. A professor-friend of my mother's never starts to teach a new class of students but what she spends most of the first lecture carefully explaining the difference — complete with diagrams.
It has something to do, she hypothesized, with the fact that plagiarism in the workplace isn't nearly so tightly policed as it is in an accademic setting. At work, people steal pages of reports back and forth all over the place and don't think twice about it. It's expected and even approved of for the sake of efficiency and time. After all, the company owns all the reports and their content, anyway.
Schools are a wee bit more testy about such things, since they don't own most of the material they use.
*grin* Though really, it could all just be simply a conspiracy to tick you off and nothing more.
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."
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Date: 2003-04-07 08:44 am (UTC)I think it's just a bit of overzealousness on the part of my group peers. At least now that I'm not stressing over it, I do. ;)
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Date: 2003-04-07 08:45 am (UTC)