04-19-2023, 02:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2023, 02:04 AM by studyingfortests.)
Late to the party, but here are a few thoughts:
I didn't see the original post. (I always find it interesting when someone comes in guns blazing, things don't go their way, and then they edit their original post so people can't see what was originally claimed.) However, there were references to it, and excerpts in other posts.
Some things are clear:
1. The writing style in the excerpt is *nothing* like the writing style in the OP's posts in the thread. It's obvious to anyone with any sort of discernment that the two pieces of writing are not from the same person.
2. I don't know how to get it across, but finding a source and paraphrasing it **is not original writing.** So there's no way that would have been acceptable. Most writing assignments list a maximum percentage of the paper that can be quoted from another source, and it's something like 15% usually (depending on the topic.) Ripping a whole paper and running it through a paraphraser does not constitute writing a paper. And it's pretty clear this is what went on, as others in the thread have taken parts of the original and fed it through a paraphraser and gotten almost word-for-word the posted results. **The paper appears to have been plagiarized, and the OP got clocked on it.** No racism, nothing unfair.
3. I don't know how the faculty politics and policies are at UMPI, but at many schools, there is tremendous extra paperwork and time associated with reporting plagiarism. Reports to file, discussions to be had, and... sometimes you go through that, and someone at the school finds for the student. So many professors will simply let something fly not because it isn't plagiarism, but because the overhead of reporting it isn't worth the professor's time. Thus, it is entirely possible the OP had a bunch of classes, the professors knew exactly what was going on (it would be obvious to anyone skilled at looking for it), but decided it wasn't worth the hassle to report it. Until the OP got to this most recent professor (and thank God there are still professors like this one out there!) It seems pretty likely this is what happened.
Some years ago, my company hired a recent USC grad with a finance/business degree some years back. He was to be a marketing person, and the position was set up so that there was potential for him to be a partner in the business over time. (This was before social media was much of a thing... the era of blogs and such.) His first task was to write a bunch of blog articles. They came across my desk for review, and... something didn't look quite right. So I spent about 10 minutes searching and... low and behold, most of the articles were word-for-word plagiarism from other blogs.
We confronted him on this, and he first claimed that this was "standard in the field" (which, of course, it was not, and would have dinged our SEO.) He next offered to rewrite all the articles. I reviewed the second go-round, and he'd found a new set of articles, slightly reworded a few things (but so little that I was still able to find the sources in a minute or two). And he didn't understand why we had an issue with this. Ultimately, he wasn't interested in actually doing the writing, and thought he could get away with doing no work, plagiarizing everything, and we'd never know. We parted ways.
The point being... it is astounding how many people seem to legitimately think it is perfectly fine to just plagiarize content, make a few tweaks, and pass it off as your own. **It isn't.** The sooner OP realizes this, and actually decides it's worth his while to actually do the work, the better off he will be.
But I'm not under any illusion he'll ever own up to it or admit it. He seems way too steeped in his own false narrative to take anything anyone here has to say.
^^^THIS^^^
I didn't see the original post. (I always find it interesting when someone comes in guns blazing, things don't go their way, and then they edit their original post so people can't see what was originally claimed.) However, there were references to it, and excerpts in other posts.
Some things are clear:
1. The writing style in the excerpt is *nothing* like the writing style in the OP's posts in the thread. It's obvious to anyone with any sort of discernment that the two pieces of writing are not from the same person.
2. I don't know how to get it across, but finding a source and paraphrasing it **is not original writing.** So there's no way that would have been acceptable. Most writing assignments list a maximum percentage of the paper that can be quoted from another source, and it's something like 15% usually (depending on the topic.) Ripping a whole paper and running it through a paraphraser does not constitute writing a paper. And it's pretty clear this is what went on, as others in the thread have taken parts of the original and fed it through a paraphraser and gotten almost word-for-word the posted results. **The paper appears to have been plagiarized, and the OP got clocked on it.** No racism, nothing unfair.
3. I don't know how the faculty politics and policies are at UMPI, but at many schools, there is tremendous extra paperwork and time associated with reporting plagiarism. Reports to file, discussions to be had, and... sometimes you go through that, and someone at the school finds for the student. So many professors will simply let something fly not because it isn't plagiarism, but because the overhead of reporting it isn't worth the professor's time. Thus, it is entirely possible the OP had a bunch of classes, the professors knew exactly what was going on (it would be obvious to anyone skilled at looking for it), but decided it wasn't worth the hassle to report it. Until the OP got to this most recent professor (and thank God there are still professors like this one out there!) It seems pretty likely this is what happened.
Some years ago, my company hired a recent USC grad with a finance/business degree some years back. He was to be a marketing person, and the position was set up so that there was potential for him to be a partner in the business over time. (This was before social media was much of a thing... the era of blogs and such.) His first task was to write a bunch of blog articles. They came across my desk for review, and... something didn't look quite right. So I spent about 10 minutes searching and... low and behold, most of the articles were word-for-word plagiarism from other blogs.
We confronted him on this, and he first claimed that this was "standard in the field" (which, of course, it was not, and would have dinged our SEO.) He next offered to rewrite all the articles. I reviewed the second go-round, and he'd found a new set of articles, slightly reworded a few things (but so little that I was still able to find the sources in a minute or two). And he didn't understand why we had an issue with this. Ultimately, he wasn't interested in actually doing the writing, and thought he could get away with doing no work, plagiarizing everything, and we'd never know. We parted ways.
The point being... it is astounding how many people seem to legitimately think it is perfectly fine to just plagiarize content, make a few tweaks, and pass it off as your own. **It isn't.** The sooner OP realizes this, and actually decides it's worth his while to actually do the work, the better off he will be.
But I'm not under any illusion he'll ever own up to it or admit it. He seems way too steeped in his own false narrative to take anything anyone here has to say.
(04-18-2023, 09:33 PM)path_seeker Wrote: Just expel this guy from the school already. He's good for nothing, copy cat whining here. Yo, UMPI is not for you.
^^^THIS^^^
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