Bullshit Classes
Professional Writing
Plagiarism
On December 20th 2002, while in my professional writing class, it came time for peer editing. While professor went around she was glancing at our rough drafts of a proposal for a group project we were working on. First she noticed our outlines were similar {gee I wonder why?...it couldn't be because we were in the same group and making a proposal on the same exact thing, or that I gave him notes on how to write his outline...no...}, then she said they were word for word, which they are not. While the outlines are very similar, the proposals themselves aren't. However she noticed that we both made the same heading errors and said those were word for word also. So I said, "These are not word for word, here read them, they're not word for word." Then with her "I'm talking to a three year old tone", that she always speaks in, she said, "I'll take your word for it." This gives me even more reason to hate this nonsense class.
*these are word documents, they download in like two seconds
Dustin Wheeler's Rough Draft of his Proposal
Greg Svatora's Rough Draft of his Proposal
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