novobo
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tl;dr My friend copied a body paragraph from my English essay word-to-word, should I report him?
Here's the thing:
We finished our internal trial assessment for English not too long ago. Today, after we got our results back, the teacher told me to compare his style of writing to mine, as we both got full marks. My friend offered to let me see his essay as well, and he suggested that he "used some of the ideas" from my prepared body paragraphs. I have sent my prepared paragraphs for final exam use to him solely because he had been begging me for ages, and he said he were "merely collecting ideas from different people". I remember I told him "it's ok to look at ideas, but do not copy!" (as I really am not a skilled essay writer, I often sit the tests with prepared body paragraphs and then stuff them in the essay to fit the essay question)
Sadly, he didn't listen. I saw his first body paragraph, and realised that was the best body paragraph I have prepared. He copied literally word-to-word, and only changed a few sophisticated words to their synonyms.
To be honest, I am more disappointed than angry. I think he should learn a lesson from this misconduct, but he: 1) he is an international student, only in the sense that his parents have paid a lot for his education and put high expectations on him; 2) if he is penalised to get 0 for this 15 mark essay, his internal rank for English will drop significantly. This will surely affect his HSC mark for English.
I really don't know what to do. I told him to meet our teacher privately, just between us three. But I think it is the best that he only loses some partial marks, but cannot guarantee nonetheless.
Please feel free to comment on anything!
Here's the thing:
We finished our internal trial assessment for English not too long ago. Today, after we got our results back, the teacher told me to compare his style of writing to mine, as we both got full marks. My friend offered to let me see his essay as well, and he suggested that he "used some of the ideas" from my prepared body paragraphs. I have sent my prepared paragraphs for final exam use to him solely because he had been begging me for ages, and he said he were "merely collecting ideas from different people". I remember I told him "it's ok to look at ideas, but do not copy!" (as I really am not a skilled essay writer, I often sit the tests with prepared body paragraphs and then stuff them in the essay to fit the essay question)
Sadly, he didn't listen. I saw his first body paragraph, and realised that was the best body paragraph I have prepared. He copied literally word-to-word, and only changed a few sophisticated words to their synonyms.
To be honest, I am more disappointed than angry. I think he should learn a lesson from this misconduct, but he: 1) he is an international student, only in the sense that his parents have paid a lot for his education and put high expectations on him; 2) if he is penalised to get 0 for this 15 mark essay, his internal rank for English will drop significantly. This will surely affect his HSC mark for English.
I really don't know what to do. I told him to meet our teacher privately, just between us three. But I think it is the best that he only loses some partial marks, but cannot guarantee nonetheless.
Please feel free to comment on anything!
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