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BigJ

Lifer
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When you're grading papers, do you actually go and look up the books that are on the works cited? For example, if someone cited the book "Ravelstein" page 312 would you go ahead and look it up? Ravelstein being an actual book by an actual author that has a topic seemingly relevant to the paper.

I was wondering about this as I was doing a works cited for a paper I just wrote and thought it would be a major pain for a teacher to do this for the 80 essays she has to grade, and it's always irked me in the past.

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ChefJoe

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If in doubt, I'd do it. Especially if you're going against what it should say. It's too big a pain in the ass to really look up everything but I'd need to get some backup if I thought you were cheating/BS'ing me.
 
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BigJ

Lifer
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Originally posted by: ChefJoe
If in doubt, I'd do it. Especially if you're going against what it should say. It's too big a pain in the ass to really look up everything but I'd need to get some backup if I thought you were cheating/BS'ing me.
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I'm not talking about blatantly making something up, but referencing a real book that doesn't even reference the topic you're talking.
 
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jlee

Lifer
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Academic dishonesty is in many cases an automatic F (at least in my school)...not sure how often they check, though.
 
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BigJ

Lifer
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Originally posted by: CadetLee
Academic dishonesty is in many cases an automatic F (at least in my school)...not sure how often they check, though.
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Not even talking about college, even in HS. I wonder how many kids actually did this and got away with it.
 
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EyeMWing

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My teachers are a little hipper - when they think they're being BS'd, they pull a quote out of your paper and drop it on Google. So make sure you anti-google your paper and you'll be fine.
 
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Kipper

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So in other words...you're making up sources? :thumbsdown: I hope you get what's coming to you. :disgust:

Edit: If you're not suggesting academic dishonesty, then...what are you suggesting?
 
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Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
So in other words...you're making up sources? :thumbsdown: I hope you get what's coming to you. :disgust:

Edit: If you're not suggesting academic dishonesty, then...what are you suggesting?
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Aye...looks to be the case.....


On my last reasearch paper, our prof told us to add sources even if they pointed us in the direction off something else (assumign they were crucial to the paper) but definitely I quoted ancited everything I used
 
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BigJ

Lifer
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Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
So in other words...you're making up sources? :thumbsdown: I hope you get what's coming to you. :disgust:

Edit: If you're not suggesting academic dishonesty, then...what are you suggesting?
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No, all my sources are legit. I'm done writing the paper and am just adjusting the works cited to the MLA format. I'm just wondering if anyone's run into this before who is a teacher or TA.
 
TuxDave

TuxDave

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Of course not. However, if they cited a paper that is said prove something outrageous or some study that concluded some weird thing, THEN I would go back to look up the reference.
 
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imported_waldo

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From my experience, teachers nor TA's will not look up the references....the thing they look for is when you don't quote something and it sounds really good....then watch cause google's gonna come and get you, oh yeah, and if your argument doesn't go along with what the text generally says. Other than that, you are home free typically.
 
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