CASE STUDY – COLLEGE PAPER PROFESSOR LOVELIT REGGIE was really upset. He hadn’t

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CASE STUDY – COLLEGE PAPER
PROFESSOR LOVELIT
REGGIE was really upset. He hadn’t started the paper. In fact he had only read about
25 pages out of the 300 he needed to read before beginning the paper. Making matters
worse, he had missed class discussions because of games. The first thing Reggie did
was call SALLY, his academic support counselor, to see if he could work with a tutor on
his paper. Sally met with him, but she told him tutoring wouldn’t help until he read more
of the book. He asked her if she had read the book, and she said no. Reggie tried to
read more on the weekend, but he didn’t have much time because of a game. Besides
he had to prepare for exams in other classes.
By Sunday night Reggie was really stressed out and started searching the Internet to
see what he could find out about the book. Finally, he found an essay on the Internet
and used it to write his paper. The next day he ran into ARNIE, another student in his
class. Arnie said he hadn’t started on the essay and was still trying to finish the
book. Reggie told Arnie about the Internet essay, but warned him against using much of
it since he was already using it for his essay. On Tuesday, Reggie took his essay to
Sally to have her read it over. Sally told him the essay didn’t make much sense and
asked him to explain to her what he was trying to say. She soon realized he hadn’t read
much more of the book and told him she really couldn’t help him. She warned him about
turning in someone else’s ideas as his own. Reggie went away discouraged. On
Wednesday he tried to revise the essay some more before turning it in on Thursday
morning.
Meanwhile, Arnie kept trying to read the book. However, he was really upset because
the book was difficult and he couldn’t read it quickly. Wednesday night in a panic, he
took the Internet essay, added his own introduction and conclusion and turned it in
during class on Friday.
On Sunday night when Reggie returned from his meet, he had a voice mail message
from PROFESSOR LOVELIT asking him to come to her office on Monday morning. At
the meeting, she explained that she knew he and Arnie had not written their own
papers. Not only were the papers almost exactly alike, but also she had found the
original essay on the Internet. On top of that their papers were not about the assigned
topic. She told him that they would both receive an F for their final grade in the course.
* * * * *
Listed below are the characters in this story. Rank them in order of
their responsibility for Reggie’s failing grade. Give a different score to each
character. Be prepared to explain your choices.
Most responsible <– 1 2 3 4 –> Least responsible

___ Professor Lovelit, the teacher ___ Sally, the academic counselor
___ Reggie, the student-athlete ___ Arnie, the other student
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Read the college paper case study  and consider how you would rate the responsibility of each person involved. Next, review the University of the People's Academic Integrity and Code of Conduct Statements. When you're ready, create a post that uses the case study and the College's statements to discuss what you believe about plagiarism. Discuss the strategies you will use to ensure that you will not inadvertently plagiarize while engaged in your studies at UoPeople and explain why you made the decisions you did.

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Ranking the characters in the order in which they were responsible for Reggie’s failing grade:

Plagiarism happens when an individual publishes someone else’s work under his name. This is basically eating someone else’s vomited food. The individual is totally under loss in such cases as he has zero understanding of the content and will not be able to explain himself, if asked questions. Also, he will not be able to express himself as instead of reading, he resorted to cheating. Though it is an easy way out in short term, long-term consequences can be really bad.

Ways in which I will try avoiding plagiarism in my work:

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