On three separate occasions in the last few weeks, I have found myself in a conversation about college students and plagiarism. What was interesting to me is that in the three cases, three pretty different penalties were imposed -- in one case, the student failed the course, in another the student failed the paper but not the course, and the third was not directly penalized but allowed to write a new paper.
Just wondering what other parents think is most appropriate. To me, failing the course seems perhaps harsh (although maybe the paper was most of the grade) but I am not sure that just writing another paper really sends the right message either.
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