My summer school term is over, and I've made it through the eight weeks of tutoring a bit richer. But being away from home two nights a week doesn't sit right with any of us. DH is weary of it, and DD misses me, so I've turned down tutoring next term, but will begin a new class on Monday night.
The happy dance is slightly smaller because I discovered a completely plagiarized paper amongst my students' work. Not a chance of it being an overlooked failure to cite, but man, sometimes they are really dumb. After eight weeks of listening to this guy talk, did he really think I'd believe he wrote sentences with vocabulary so far above his usual spoken range including words like "exigency" and phrases like "gross inequities"? So I'm irritated and he will fail.
My happier news? Two days on the treadmill and I've rediscovered how happy exercise makes me. Not a penny spent today either.
Small Happy Dance
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My daughter has had to copy her paper into some sort of "cheating program" and it has determined what % of her paper isn't original. In her case it simply boiled down to exact quotes from "Great Expectations" in a character analysis she did of the prisoner-benefactor character (his name escapes me now).
I was once accused of having limited academic integrity when I researched a similar topic for two different classes I had concurrently. That one still doesn't seem right to me, but oh well ... live and learn. I don't think I've ever used exigency in conversation or prose!
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