<p>ON tuesday November 21, 2011 i took a test in my Soviet History class 1945-present. </p>
<p>The test format is open notes and open book. </p>
<p>I take my notes on my laptop and sometimes throughout the semester i will research on the internet to find question to my answers, however most of the time i will always try to email my professor If, in fact, I do have a question. </p>
<p>So my notes are consisted of notes from class and notes from copied on line material. I have been doing this through out the semester so when it was time to take the test I wasn't sure which were my notes and which were from the internet. </p>
<p>Now my teacher wants to send my work to the honory committee. Do you think I can talk him out of this if he knows this is an honest mistake. </p>
<p>If i get kicked out of my class and get an "F" my parents are going to kill. If i get put on suspension my parents will flip out and I don't know what will happen if I get kicked out of school. UGHHHHHHHHHHH</p>
<p>This whole thing was a mistake and my professor is making this sound like I'm a cheater. </p>
<p>I also want to add that I am taking 14 credits. So its soo hard to keep up with all my notes. </p>
<p>My teacher is basically saying to remember all the notes I write down. To remember all your notes you write down is a supreme achievment. By contrast, I think this is very hard.</p>
<p>If you are not turning in the work or submitting it and just using the online material to read, that is not plagiarism. You should definitely appeal this decision to the principal.</p>
<p>If you are copying word for word from your notes and those notes happen to be direct from online material then that is plagiarism. You should have not been copying your notes exactly in the first place (IF this is the case, I can’t think of any other situation that might result in plagiarism). If this is not the case, then I would think this accusation is unfair and would appeal it (to the appropriate people, I don’t know how the process works at your school).</p>
<p>If you copied them, as ^ said, then it’s plagiarism…what the last 2 posters said is both right, I agree. Also, 14 credits is not that much, so I don’t understand your complaints about having so much work to do, unless you’re taking 14 credits and working like a full-time job or something. I’m a freshman and I’m taking 19 credits, and taking 22 next semester. 14 is nothing, that’s below the average/norm at my school.</p>
<p>As this was an open book and open note exam, you had the opportunity to quote or paraphrase material from a source. When you do so, you must properly introduce and cite the material in such a way that it clearly reflects where the quotation/paraphrase is taken from and document who wrote the original material. Example: To paraphrase lecture notes from Prof. Smith [Oct. 31, 2011]… OR Smith (10/31/2011) stated “…”.<br>
Smith, A.B. (10/31/2011) Lecture #4 Soviet Occupation 1947. Course XYZ, ABC University <a href=“http://www.abcuniversity%5B/url%5D”>www.abcuniversity</a> .edu/…</p>
<p>Academic writing (open exams, assignments, papers, projects, etc) that is not cited as originating from another source is considered to be your own work. Thus, failure to cite whether intentional or unintentional may be construed as academic dishonesty and/or plagiarism. </p>
<p>Generally an instructor will consider the level of the student, the type of assignment and the extent of the plagiarism before sending a student to a disciplinary committee. A grade school student would be treated differently from a university or grad school student. An exam may be treated differently from an assignment. A omission of quotation marks around a single phrase would be different from 50% or more of an article “lighting up” on turnitin. com or an entire cut/paste made from a web article. </p>
<p>Profs detest sending students to an honors council. It’s a pain to put together the case for the Dean’s office and uncomfortable for all involved. If you had one phrase that was not properly cited, then you might be able to make a case for an “honest mistake”. If you failed to use any citations and did not provide any references despite the circumstances-rushed, tired, careless…- you are in a tough position with a prof who has every right to uphold academic integrity in his/her class.</p>
<p>I think you can make a case for it being a mistake, but if I were you I’d start writing my notes in different colors to differentiate what’s mine/from lecture and what’s from the internet.</p>
<p>"Be sure to read the questions on the test carefully, so you will give the answers that are needed. Don’t waste your time. Answer the easier questions first then move on to the more difficult ones. Don’t practice overkill. Answer what needs to be answered. You do not have to give every fact in your head. It often helps to give quotations or paraphrasing, but you must be certain to give the correct citation. Don’t do this too much or the work will not be yours. Read over your answers and make any necessary corrections. "</p>
<p>That’s ridiculous. If you know something, you know something. You can’t possibly remember where you obtained everything. An exam is much different than a paper- where you have to reference sources and you’re not expected to know all the answers.</p>
<p>Of course that’s ridiculous for a closed book exam……and one is not expected to provide citations and references in that setting. But NCS was talking about an open book exam.</p>
<p>For an OPEN BOOK exam, if you pull a quote, copy text or paraphrase from another source you need to provide the citation…just like a paper.</p>