# Depressed TA: plagarism. Long-ish **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 8, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931 "2002-06-08T02:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931/61 "2002-06-15T05:16:32Z")
[apologies for continuing to hijack] Yes! Definitely the mushroom guy. And yes, Ancient Greek the language. Considering that it’s an important part of my major, I really regret ending up with that guy as a professor. I feel like I’m going to have trouble with Greek for a long time, Because this asshole never bothered to teach us the basics, like principle parts. I have friends who have taken his myth class. They agree that it’s an easy good grade, but absolutely despise the prof. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931/62 "2002-06-15T15:55:07Z")
**arisu** - I don’t want to continue to hijack the thread, but would you mind if I contacted you off-board (via email)? You sound like my kind of person, being into Ancient Greek and all. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931/63 "2002-06-15T17:59:12Z")
I don’t mind. (Be advised that it may be a day or two before I get back to you; I don’t check the address in my profile every day.) ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931/64 "2002-06-15T23:05:12Z")
Re-hijacking this thread with exciting update: So I’m sitting around grading final exams so that we can turn in grades on Monday. One of the three (who otherwise was heading towards a B or so) e-mails me: “Hi, this is XXXX from your Monday class. i was wondering what grade i got on my second paper. if you have that and the final grade, i’d be interested to know. thanks.” Hah! So how do I answer this? “I haven’t finished grading finals, but what do YOU think you should get on the paper? This is a trick question. Hint: I’ve heard of the internet.”? I think he is the only of the three that will be very surprised (the other two would possibly have failed anyway-- this is the guy that cooked up fake citations). I’m not looking forward to this-- have mailed prof and head-TA for guidance. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931/65 "2002-06-15T23:29:56Z")
Oh! Oh, or “Your paper was very well-written. It is unfortunate that it was not written _by you_.” ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931/66 "2002-06-15T23:39:00Z")
E-mail him back, with the message consisting of links to the websites he plagiarised from. I’d go for understatement after that, myself, akin to: “This will have a negative impact on your grade.” ---
**Author:** ![LilCutie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@LilCutie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilCutie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931/67 "2002-06-16T15:43:39Z")
I’m not sure if anyone has posted this already, but I know that back at my high school ( i just graduated!!!) I was in International Baccalaureates. And to make sure we weren’t plagarizing our work they ran it through [www.turnitin.com](http://www.turnitin.com) it was very helpful. It’s also helpful to students as well, because it tells you if you haven’t cited your work right, and it gives you a report as to how much has been plagarized. It’s a great site. Jenny\* ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931/68 "2002-06-17T05:55:24Z")
Congradulations, **Cutie**! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-ta-plagarism-long-ish/112931.md?page=3)