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Jezza_Belle  4 stars
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Ok, say you took a class but had to drop out halfway through, so you end up having to take the same class again.

Since you never really got credits for an essay you wrote the first time, do you think it's ethical to use it the second time around?

it's not plagiarized, as you did write it yourself.

 

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Itab  4 stars
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This isn't even an ethics question. Of course.

 

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myxomatosis8  3 stars
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Itab posted:

This isn't even an ethics question. Of course.

 

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of course you can, its yours silly

now is it the same teacher and would they know you are just repeating your work efforts?


no idea

 

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Ferrydust  3 stars
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You are looking at school all wrong.
You want to try and get as much education as you can for your money. The teachers don't care if you learn or not. So in the interest of furthering your education you should re-do it.

Remember, you are trying to suck out as much info as you can for your money.

 

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-Darkfire-  3 stars
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no you rewrite your entire essay and cite yourself

 

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Jezza_Belle  4 stars
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-Darkfire- posted:

no you rewrite your entire essay and cite yourself



ROFL, that would be hilarious


Edit: I'm mostly concerned because they use software to find plagiarized work, stealing essays from other students is pretty popular these days I guess. Since I've submitted the essay previously to the same school, same class, different teacher.... that's probably going to come up in the search.

I'm not concerned about learning much in English 101, when I took the placement test I got 100/100 and 99/100 on the two tests... but I get stuck in the same class as someone who got 70/100 70/100.

 

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silvadel2  2 stars
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If that is the case then yes it will flag it. What is bad is it might also flag another essay you write yourself because it is too similar to the ones you did the first time in style etc.

If the professor is at all decent you could show him the essays you had turned in for the first run through, explain what happened that forced you to drop the class midstream and he might not have you redo them.

 

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purplehugmonkey  2 stars
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At my school, if you have turned it in previously, even for a different class, it is considered cheating.

If you had written it and then dropped the class before turning it in, it would be fine, but if you turned it in you should do it again. Just the threat of having plagiarism on your record is worth spending some time knocking out another one.

 

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Axispipe  3 stars
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is it ethical that professors shop around for the best book deal kickback from publishers to use their very expensive shiny new text with the classes they teach?

 

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