He has given me two options: do nothing, or report them to the Dean of Students. The professor that oversees my class doesn't have time to talk to me hence I am here. They each said they worked together, but didn't copy (slim chance. I showed them the highlighted TurnItIn gradereport and their reports side-by-side. I brought them outside class one at a time and asked them what happened. I couldn't believe it - I had just explained to them the week prior how easy it was to spot plagiarism. This week, two more students blatantly copied chunks of the other's paper. I didn't take action on the other, besides a stern talking-to. One of the plagiarizing students dropped the class herself. I gave a long speech about academic honesty and such. I repeated the "your text should not be found anywhere else in the universe" talk. I made it clear that they are not to work together and that no text in their reports should be found "anywhere else in the universe."Īfter the first week I caught a group of two plagiarizing. They submit their assignments to TurnItIn, which you may know highlights any text pulled from another place. To give some background, I am a TA at UCLA for a lab class.
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