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I've noticed on several occasions that almost everyone I am around are influenced by the media in some way. Some people read the morning newspaper on the bus and other simply get false information from other sources. What I am trying to say is that at my age, 14, almost everybody are influenced by computer games and so on. They later take it so incredibly seriously that it affects them in their school work. I saw on one of my friend's physics assignment concerning equilibrium, piece of cake. What the problem is he wrote according to sparknotes found on the net. He was automatically failed and the teacher is now keeping a special eye on his work.
Do you think this problem should be discussed with students before they learn it the hard way or let it be? It's a stomach hit when you are failed when using other sources on the net. His assignment was not incorrect, but you should use the textbook we used. My friend's excuse was that the book was hard to undertand and it was not pedagogical enough. He was told to ask the teacher if he had any problems.
Do you think this problem should be discussed with students before they learn it the hard way or let it be? It's a stomach hit when you are failed when using other sources on the net. His assignment was not incorrect, but you should use the textbook we used. My friend's excuse was that the book was hard to undertand and it was not pedagogical enough. He was told to ask the teacher if he had any problems.
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Perhaps your friend copied what was on Sparknotes rather than paraphrasing it. Plagurism gets an automatic fail. or maybe what he wrote wasn't detailed enough, or he misinterpritted it, or wrote things out of context?
So it isn't plagierism, but it was something else