crashtest.danny
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Arkansas
I have recently been accused of plagiarism in one of my classes. I am facing possible expulsion from school over a paper that I did not intentionally. Yes, in the strictest manner I did, according to school policy. plagiarize. After careful review, I found several mis-citations of page numbers. In most cases, I switched numbers around (i.e. 87 instead of 78, or 1032 instead of 1302). The teacher whom is charging me with plagiarism and is pushing to have me expelled mark several "plagiarized" phrase; most of which are two to three word common phrases like: he was, no matter how, and art is life (all very common phrases for the subject matter).
I do not think I can fight these charges because in the strictest since of the word I did plagiarize. But, during the conference about the paper, the teacher said something that made me wonder what was truly going on. She said that she realized that I was plagiarizing when she read my rough draft. The problem is I did not use any sources in my rough draft. (I had neither read any sources nor had I even read the play on which the paper was to be written.) She then said that she had spent extra time making sure that I had plagiarized. It seems to me that she was trying to prove that I was cheating before I had even presented the paper.
While I know that plagiarism is not a legal problem, expulsion is I believe. Is there any way that I can use that fact that she spent extra time on my paper and that she thought I was plagiarizing even before I wrote the paper, to keep myself from being expelled? I have been failed from the class as well, but my main concern is staying in school. I only need 21 hours to graduate. So do I have any defense or am I going to be kicked out?
(I had also made this same teacher very, very upset several times in a previous semester.)
Many Thanks,
I have recently been accused of plagiarism in one of my classes. I am facing possible expulsion from school over a paper that I did not intentionally. Yes, in the strictest manner I did, according to school policy. plagiarize. After careful review, I found several mis-citations of page numbers. In most cases, I switched numbers around (i.e. 87 instead of 78, or 1032 instead of 1302). The teacher whom is charging me with plagiarism and is pushing to have me expelled mark several "plagiarized" phrase; most of which are two to three word common phrases like: he was, no matter how, and art is life (all very common phrases for the subject matter).
I do not think I can fight these charges because in the strictest since of the word I did plagiarize. But, during the conference about the paper, the teacher said something that made me wonder what was truly going on. She said that she realized that I was plagiarizing when she read my rough draft. The problem is I did not use any sources in my rough draft. (I had neither read any sources nor had I even read the play on which the paper was to be written.) She then said that she had spent extra time making sure that I had plagiarized. It seems to me that she was trying to prove that I was cheating before I had even presented the paper.
While I know that plagiarism is not a legal problem, expulsion is I believe. Is there any way that I can use that fact that she spent extra time on my paper and that she thought I was plagiarizing even before I wrote the paper, to keep myself from being expelled? I have been failed from the class as well, but my main concern is staying in school. I only need 21 hours to graduate. So do I have any defense or am I going to be kicked out?
(I had also made this same teacher very, very upset several times in a previous semester.)
Many Thanks,
