Plagiarism on a Team Project

[ss20ts]

Anyone ever have someone submit plagiarized work on a team assignment? What did you do? Did you report it to your professor?

[Alpha]

I've never been in that situation but, in my opinion, there's plagiarism and then there's PLAGIARISM.  If it's a substantial offense then I'd turn them in.  It's basically professional ethics for students.

[bjcheung77]

Interesting, I'm curious as to what is plagiarized... How did you find out it was them? I would report it!

[cerich67]

In a first team project in one class I was doing final edit on the paper and ran it thru Grammarly for grammar. Well, yeah it showed plagiarism. I lost my crap on the TWO (of 4 in group) that had given me that and one handed in new stuff, the other never did but I was stupid and did his work. That was mid term project

Come the final project and the guy that had not bothered to correct his in the mid term handed in his "work" and I ran it right away.. plagiarism again. I sent a email to Prof and Dean with the work he had sent, the proofs of plagiarism and in fact revisited the mid term and what had happened.

I honestly don't know what happened to him, nor do I care that much.

I have a friend who teaches staff college for the military, mid grade officers about to be senior, and he has it all the time.

Welcome to 2022

[origamishuttle]

Welcome to 2022

I would think it's the opposite in 2022. There are so many ways to check now! Why would someone do it, other than to get thrown out of school on purpose?

[cerich67]

Welcome to 2022

I would think it's the opposite in 2022. There are so many ways to check now! Why would someone do it, other than to get thrown out of school on purpose?

valid point, I was alluding to there being less fidelity to ethics. That is probably more me getting older than reality however.

[jch]

I narrowly avoided this in an earlier term. One of my peers submitted discussion posts throughout the course that just seemed off. A quick search revealed that they were all just blatant copy pastes. Then I got assigned to do a group project with them. I sent an email to the academic integrity office with lots of evidence and asked to be moved to a different group. Prof rearranged the groups the next day, IDK what ever happened to the student.

[SweetSecret]

Yes, it's like the bane of my existence! I was in a class that involved peer grading. All semester I had been grading at this guy's papers that were directly copied from the book. When I first noticed it I talked to the professor who told me to mark everything as zero and state that it was plagiarism. The professor had a military background to be honest I totally felt bad for this guy but I really appreciated the professor giving confidence to be okay telling my peer that he needed to stop plagiarizing. He had gotten better by the end of the term. Then hand it up in my group project. I ended up taking the lead on the project. He turned on his portion with plagiarism and I notified him that he had to change it. He turned in a better version that wasn't completely perfect but definitely an improvement that I was able to work with. We ended up getting an "A" for the final project, but it definitely put me in a difficult position. I did notify the professor when he turned in the initial work that there had been plagiarism, and just kept him updated. I don't know if the guy ended up passing the class or not. I think some schools are more relaxed about this with some of the international students for their first term that might not be used to the expectations of the US schools.

[ss20ts]

Interesting, I'm curious as to what is plagiarized... How did you find out it was them?  I would report it!

Oh it's not hard to figure it out when you're the team leader and all of the assignments come to you for submission. Their entire paper was plagiarized. 


My pro tip for the day.....
If you can't figure out how to calculate the time zone next to you, don't submit pages of statistical methodologies which were clearly written by a subject matter expert. It takes less than 30 seconds to find plagiarism on Google especially when you copy and paste directly from a textbook. I can't even give points fo creativity on this one. I did report it. I don't want my name on a plagiarized paper.

[allvia]

Interesting, I'm curious as to what is plagiarized... How did you find out it was them?  I would report it!

Oh it's not hard to figure it out when you're the team leader and all of the assignments come to you for submission. Their entire paper was plagiarized. 


My pro tip for the day.....
If you can't figure out how to calculate the time zone next to you, don't submit pages of statistical methodologies which were clearly written by a subject matter expert. It takes less than 30 seconds to find plagiarism on Google especially when you copy and paste directly from a textbook. I can't even give points fo creativity on this one. I did report it. I don't want my name on a plagiarized paper.

As the team leader I assume you rejected it back to them, and let them know why?  Curious if you called them out on it in the team meeting or one-on-one. If you hadn't caught it and it was submitted it would have sank the whole team - as it would equal you all plagiarizing if submitted for grading as a team.  Plagiarizing is bad (we can all agree on that), but plagiarizing knowing you could cause harm to an entire team of people - that is the worst kind of plagiarizer.