Still More Fun With Online School
A few days ago I received the following as an assignment in my current class. I have marked the relevant part.
“Write some notes as a personal journal of what you have learned.
By Tuesday, May 10, 2011, post your personal journal to the Discussion Area.
There is no grade for this, but it will form the basis for writing a final, farewell posting, and will be a useful reference as you pursue your career and further studies.”
Guess which is the part I ran with?
What I learned from this class.
Do not respond to a critique from your instructor if you find your body is deficient of any substance that you have developed a dependency on. You will probably just come off as a dick.
Make sure that you never set art supplies where your 18 month old children can reach them.
If you do leave art supplies where a small child can reach them, just go ahead and kiss your security deposit goodbye now.
There are evidently art supplies capable of bringing your drawing, literally, to life. Presumably magic markers, since they have the word magic right in the name.
If you point out that this is what your classmate just claimed, you’re an asshole.
Just because the assignment is title “Thumbnails” or “Anatomy Drawing” doesn’t mean that the assignment will actually entail either of those.
Evidently schools consider it plagiarism if you submit the same project in two different classes.
The difference between a basic and intermediate class is mostly just the amount of assignments.
If you know how Google works, the textbook becomes optional.
There are people who, after a brief study over a particular academic field, cannot come up with sensible questions or even topics of conversation on the subject that they just learned about. And given that these people exist, I should probably be happy that our society has found a way to put them to productive use. I am a bit perplexed about where our school found enough of them to design our entire curriculum.
If your scanner breaks, just go ahead and get a new one. Your digital camera is probably not going to cut it.
It only takes 4.4 pounds of pressure to completely obstruct the carotid artery.
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May 13th, 2011 at 2:11 am
yet another
If you refuse to pander to what is called “white mans guilt” you are in fact a racist
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May 13th, 2011 at 10:43 am
“Evidently schools consider it plagiarism if you submit the same project in two different classes.”
I’ve never, ever understood this one, but I think it’s actually more or less a universal rule across pretty much any college or university you can go to.
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skippy reply on May 13th, 2011 10:48 am:
I think it has to do with certification. To be properly certified the student needs to do “X” classes which consist of “y” work. If you turn in the same project twice you didn’t do “Y” work anymore, you copied another assignment.
It’s a matter of defining non-plagiarism as doing unique work for the class in question.
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Jim A reply on May 13th, 2011 5:10 pm:
Well I think that it is by analogy to actual, you know PUBLICATION, the holy grail to which academia kowtows and genuflects. Academics are judged primarily on the basis of how much they have published and how often they have been cited by other academics. AND the publishers insist that when the copyright is assigned to them (for free) that the writers have not writen the same article and given it to somebody else too. Because academic writing is a product so in demand that it can’t even be given away to publishers without conditions.
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AFP reply on May 13th, 2011 7:30 pm:
I’m not sure if it is straight-up plagarism, but rather something else under the blanket term “Academic Dishonesty”, where plagarism and using the same assignment twice are both treated as equally bad.
I guess I can understand it from the perspective that if the assignment is to *write* a three page paper and turn it in, as opposed to *turning in* a three page paper that you wrote, then just turning in a paper you wrote previously would not be meeting the requirements of the assignment.
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May 13th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Sounds like that time John Fogerty ripped off “Run Through the Jungle.”
You should be ashamed. You didn’t work so hard on that project, just to have you come along and copy it. If you can’t do your own work, you shouldn’t expect you to do it for you. Honestly, now.
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May 16th, 2011 at 8:24 am
That last one should make them all worry. >:-D
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May 29th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
how did the carotid arttery fact come about?
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June 2nd, 2011 at 5:26 pm
So let me get this straight. I create a unique object, with my name attached to it, and using it for multiple submissions to a single entity is considered plagiarism? Isn’t plagiarism defined as attempting to attach your name to another individuals work? Wow… I’m really worried about the curriculum now…
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