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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:31 am Post subject: It's plagiarism time again! |
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Well my students' writing homeworks are due in again. So once again it's plagiarism time. I announce very very clearly that they can't copy off of websites or use translation programs. I give them handouts explaining the same thing. I explain that last semester several students cheated and failed their homework. I make sure everyone understands. I explain this three classes in a row. I ask their Korean teacher to explain it to them too. I do it with shouting and drama and scare the hell out of them. They understand they can't copy off of the internet.
However, once again, some of them are cheating! I usually know they are cheating when they write something in correct English. That is a big tip-off. If I suspect them I take a sentence from their paragraph/essay and stick it into www.naver.com. If their entire essay comes up on one of the homework help pages.. FAIL!^^ (Unless it is the student submitting their personally written homework for other people to plagiarize.. that's fine..^^)
My most interesting this time is as follows:
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KIM CHI isthe Korean food which is best known overseas. It's believed that KIM CHI first appeared on the Korean Peninsula some 3,000 years ago. As fresh vegetables were too hard to come by during the cild winter, it was necessauy to find ways to preserve them until spring came. Pickling them in aslt one such way people found. KIM CHI is a fermented vegetable dish, usually made of cabbage and seasoned with red peppers and garlic. In korea people eat it daily
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I did a search on Naver, and found this essay. In fact I found:
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Unit 12 Kimchi: How it Evolved
The following is part of Junho's homework about kimchi, {that/which} will {include/be included} on his school's English homepage.
Q : Why did early Koreans develop kimchi?
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{It is/It} believed that kimchi first {was appeared/appeared} on the Korean Peninsula some 3,000 years ago. As fresh vegetables were too hard to come by {while/during} the cold winter....
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This was weird. It was obviously copied, but her homework had weird spelling mistakes and capitilizations stuck into it. Anyway during class I had her come talk to me. I laid into her. She started snivelling and explained...
She had asked her hagwan English teacher to help her write her homework. And so apparantely her 'other' English teacher (Korean, I assume..) had done an internet search and, whilst helping a student cheat, had copied someone else's homework to give to her! And he has seemingly stuck in a bunch of spelling mistakes to make it look more natural. Wonderful! Hint for Korean Hagwan Teachers Helping Their Students Cheat: Change the grammar not the spelling. Put the verb at the end of the sentence. Then I won't suspect my students of cheating.
Far more amusing than the student who had copied a music review from some Mormon newspaper of "The Used" from Salt Lake City or regular copying-from-boring-internet-website-cheaters. I should go call the student's hagwan and tell them that their teachers shouldn't cheat when they're helping their students cheat. |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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I teach a high-level writing class and told them this semester (with my director's approval) that if they copy from the internet, they get "F" for the class. I don't care if it means they can't be an exchange student to the States. If they plagerize THERE, they'll get kicked out of the school, not just out of the class. So far...no cheaters...but we still have 6 weeks to go!!
A few semesters ago I had the BEST (worst?) internet cheating I've ever had. The assignment was "My most embarrassing moment". This student wrote something like "My sister's daughter was so cute click here to email this story to your friend I really love her." 
He just copied what he saw and didn't read it! Of course he got a VERY low grade (before I started my "get tough" policy). |
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