<p>Is it kosher to reuse papers from previous classes for assignments in future classes if you turn in the same paper? </p>
<p>What if you tweak the paper? </p>
<p>What if you have a paper with a fairly good grade from a class you withdrew from or otherwise did not pass?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>yes! why wouldnt it be:? its ur work afterall</p>
<p>I don't think you should use the same exact paper...but I don't think it's a problem to reuse your own thoughts/ideas in another paper at a later date. It is your work; I just would not copy it verbatim.</p>
<p>At my school, it is against the rules unless you request permission to reuse the paper.</p>
<p>I did it! Well, sort of. I used a lot of the papers that I wrote in my health and English classes for my Speech class. My speech teacher actually encouraged it! Of course, I did tweek it to make it work and cut out a lot of the stuff that was there for a filler effect, but that's all.</p>
<p>yeah. just change it up a little. there's no reason not too, if your opinions on the subject did'nt change. why should you BS a whole new paper if you have basically the same things to say. even if you didnt reuse the papers, they would end up being similar anyways...</p>
<p>I tried to do this once and got in trouble for it. They claimed that it was "plagiarism".</p>
<p>Reusing old papers without permission constitutes a violation of the honor code of most reputable institutions.</p>
<p>No. Why would you do that? That almost as bad as paying $100 for a poorly written paper off the internet, when you could've written a high quality paper yourself for free. You see what I'm getting at? Write a new paper yourself for each assignment.</p>
<p>p.s.: What kind of school do you attend, if your classes are giving out identical or duplicate assignments?</p>
<p>If you tell both instructors about it, then somtimes they may allow it. My final in my History class could have definitely been used my final for Journalism in 20th C. America. It was my history professor who brought up the idea - if I had the other professor's permission. Well, I ended up tweaking the paper's topic, so it wouldn't work for both. But, you'd be suprised some professors are fine with it. (JUST MAKE SURE YOU ASK AHEAD OF TIME.)</p>
<p>I attend the University of Alabama, a perfectly fine college, thank you very much. Geez, can't I ask a simple question without being attacked?</p>
<p>Anyway, I have a paper that I find to my one of my better ones (usually, I find my papers to suck after the face whatever grade it may receive). Unfortunately, I withdrew from the class, and it feels like such a waste for the paper into the accordian file not counting for anything. Though, since this was an freshman level comp class and I'm an engineering student finished with my humanites courses, the chances of the same exact assignment coming around are slim, but the chances of a similar theme are not as slim. </p>
<p>Honest, I just curious.</p>
<p>I was told that reusing papers can be counted as plagerism, and was considered no different than stealing the paper of some dead guy in Finland.</p>
<p>Plagerism? How can that be when you're reusing YOUR OWN work? <em>shakes head</em></p>
<p>Can you imagine someone saying, "I got in trouble because I copied off of myself?" :)</p>
<p>r0fll . i agree with the post above. =)</p>
<p>From my school's student bulletin (Umich), under cheating:</p>
<p>Submitting substantially the same paper for two or more classes in the same or different terms without the expressed approval of each instructor. (<a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg/bulletin/chap4/conduct/%5B/url%5D">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg/bulletin/chap4/conduct/</a>)</p>
<p>There's nothing in the Code of Academic Conduct at University of Alabama specifically against it (<a href="http://catalogs.ua.edu/undergraduate/12600.html)%5B/url%5D">http://catalogs.ua.edu/undergraduate/12600.html)</a>, but it's still generally frowned upon. Unless you get permission from both professors, I wouldn't do it.</p>
<p>I did it in high school... I usually got As on my papers, but that paper got a B+. There's just something off about it, better to start fresh.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input everybody. While I can't buy into the argument that it would be plagarism as it's my own work, I can understand the argument that it would constitute a form of academic malfeasance--claiming credit for the same work twice. Still, I'm not convinced. People recycle work all the time. For example, when I was applying to college, nobody said sending the same admissions essays to different colleges was wrong. In fact, books I read recommended doing so...I think.</p>
<p>yeah that was an explicit 'no' at my honor code driven school</p>
<p>I tweaked and reused an essay from an english class to an english class, got an A both times, and i honestly had no idea thats considered plagiarism in some schools. I want to look it up in the handbook now for my school. But I've never had any professors say anything forbidding it...</p>