<p>Here is my situation.... recently I was caught cheating on a test, my school is honor code and I admitted my wrongdoing to the teacher, she appreciated my honest and gave me what I determined to be fair sanctions. I am a transfer student who got swamped and was too afraid to fail so I cheated, it was dumb and unacceptable. Now my group, for a project, in this same class has accused me of not doing any work on our group project. I did so much work for this project, however 3 of them are ganging up on me. I have 2 original documents on my laptop because I typed them up in my own words. I also came up with the idea for the research study, as well as how we operationalized variables, as well as observing and collecting data. These 3 girls (all of whom are friends apparently) are lying to the teacher and denying that I even did anything. How do i handle this? Can I accuse them of plagiarism if my work(that exists only on my computer and email acct) appears in the powerpoint that they say i did nothing to create? would accusing them of this make the teacher rethink her penalty for the cheating incident? how can I prove my innocence here? The grade is critical to me not failing the class (the test I cheated on became a 0) and maintaining eligibility for spring sports.They are lying to our professor and I feel as though I have no recourse, other than to file some sort of litigation against these girls. Please advise</p>
<p>If these girls are already crusading against you, I wouldn’t wait until the presentation to approach the professor, I would start tackling this now. You claim to have evidence that supports you’re doing work on the project, show it to the prof.</p>
<p>the presentation has already passed, they brought it up after the fact (probably the most incriminating evidence that they are lying? If there was a problem why would they wait until completion of the work?)</p>
<p>What do they have to gain by accusing you of cheating? I do not understand why these girls decided to gang up on you after the presentation was completed.
If you did all the work and have all the notes and information that is only on your computer I think that is enough to prove that it is your work. Did you ever exchange emails with any of them that shows you sent a file or folder from your computer? If you have an email like that, that would be great proof.
When I recently did a group project I made sure to email group members with the work I did and saved all their edits and my edits on my computer to prove everyone did their part.</p>