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militarydudes · 2011-01-19 00:14:09

Okay, something really weird happened today:

I had written a 5 page World War Two story for Language Arts, and decided to post it here on the forums for opinions (only a few of you guys saw it though). Then, when I sent it in, my teacher responded the next day and gave me a 0 for plagiarizing. I e mailed her and explained i never did any such thing and asked what made her think that. She explained that the school uses a "Check my Work" application, that surfs the web for similar material to make sure you didn't steal anything. Sure enough, they discovered the exact paper I wrote posted on a public forum, Scratch. I had to explain that this was my account. In the end, I had plagiarized my own work. tongue

What mind boggling story's do you have to share?

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BlahBlahRatSheep · 2011-01-19 00:20:53

wow thats messed up, I feel bad for you . xD
wait I shouldn't be typing "xD" >_>
well force of habit. whutevs. >_<

I have no mind boggling story that will out min boggle yours. ; 3 ;

Chrischb · 2011-01-19 00:34:12

militarydudes wrote:
I had written a 5 page World War Two story for Language Arts, and decided to post it here on the forums for opinions (only a few of you guys saw it though). Then, when I sent it in, my teacher responded the next day and gave me a 0 for plagiarizing. I e mailed her and explained i never did any such thing and asked what made her think that. She explained that the school uses a "Check my Work" application, that surfs the web for similar material to make sure you didn't steal anything. Sure enough, they discovered the exact paper I wrote posted on a public forum, Scratch. I had to explain that this was my account. In the end, I had plagiarized my own work.

Did they believe you? neutral

Jonathanpb · 2011-01-19 00:36:03

militarydudes wrote:
I had written a 5 page World War Two story for Language Arts, and decided to post it here on the forums for opinions (only a few of you guys saw it though). Then, when I sent it in, my teacher responded the next day and gave me a 0 for plagiarizing. I e mailed her and explained i never did any such thing and asked what made her think that. She explained that the school uses a "Check my Work" application, that surfs the web for similar material to make sure you didn't steal anything. Sure enough, they discovered the exact paper I wrote posted on a public forum, Scratch. I had to explain that this was my account. In the end, I had plagiarized my own work.

That is completely horrible. >_< You could try logging on to your Scratch account with her watching, I don't know...

deatheater · 2011-01-19 00:39:29

So, did you get the mark you were meant to get?

sparks · 2011-01-19 04:47:44

It seems to me that as the information on a Scratch project isn't contained as text, a program searching for plagerising wouldn't be able to read the contents of a Scratch project and search it for matching text. I may be wrong about this, but are you sure you didn't copy something from somewhere else?

Jonathanpb · 2011-01-19 06:06:52

sparks wrote:
It seems to me that as the information on a Scratch project isn't contained as text, a program searching for plagerising wouldn't be able to read the contents of a Scratch project and search it for matching text. I may be wrong about this, but are you sure you didn't copy something from somewhere else?

No, militarydudes published his story in a forum topic.

agscratcher · 2011-01-19 07:18:01

OMGLOLBBQ. She needs to do her research. >.> Dang, the public school system these days...

Harakou · 2011-01-19 07:29:16

Aw, that's awful. Did you manage to get it worked out, or are you still stuck with a zero?

zawicki1fromyoutube · 2011-01-19 08:26:27

Dang. What a cliff hanger. He's not responding. I mean, the whole plot point is on it's hinges just to unveil the truth of...see ya.

mathematics · 2011-01-19 10:21:05

So does she believe you? I want to know what happens afterwards too...

werdna123 · 2011-01-19 10:41:25

Lol, that fails.

juststickman · 2011-01-19 13:32:02

Because of this, I will from now on post every single essay here just for teh lulz in case my school uses this too.

militarydudes · 2011-01-19 13:36:06

mathematics wrote:
So does she believe you? I want to know what happens afterwards too...

Yeah she believed me and fixed my grade tongue

Kileymeister · 2011-01-19 14:16:14

There's only one sensible way to respond to this.

...Bahahahaha!

GlitchSprite · 2011-01-19 14:51:00

And that, children, is why you don't post stories on Scratch

Lucario621 · 2011-01-19 15:05:01

That's horrible! Obviously the teachers have to be more careful about accusing people of plagiarism.

littletonkslover · 2011-01-19 16:04:14

lol that might happen to me

webgal15 · 2011-01-19 16:08:40

Bad bad bad.

You plagiarized yourself.

Maybe you didn't want your work taken. Maybe you worked hard on it.

Bad militarydudes.

ScratchReallyROCKS · 2011-01-19 16:26:09

*facepalm*

Wow, I really feel bad for you. How did you explain to your teacher that it was your account?

littletonkslover · 2011-01-19 16:29:32

ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:
*facepalm*

Wow, I really feel bad for you. How did you explain to your teacher that it was your account?

he could just log onto it

PW132 · 2011-01-20 13:19:18

...Wow.

Andres-Vander · 2011-01-20 14:23:45

This is why you don't put your homework on a public forum before handing it in -.-

sanddude · 2011-01-20 18:01:16

That sucks.

I hope this works out for you, and you get the grade you deserved.

scratch_yoshi · 2011-01-20 18:16:02

sanddude wrote:
That sucks.

I hope this works out for you, and you get the grade you deserved.

militarydudes wrote:
mathematics wrote:
So does she believe you? I want to know what happens afterwards too...
Yeah she believed me and fixed my grade

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