I’m sorry, so fucking angry. Students with sources that don’t exist. Students with sources that exist but then the quotation doesn’t exist.
I’m so fucking mad, because it’s extra work for me (that I’m sure as hell not getting compensated for), and it also entirely defeats the purpose of the fucking class (it’s writing/research, so like, engaging in a discipline and looking at what’s been written before on your topic, etc.)
Kill me please. Comrades, I’m so tired. I just want to teach writing. I want to give students a way to exercise agency in the world – to both see bad arguments and make good ones. They don’t care. I’m so tired.
BTW, I took time to look up some of these sources my student used, couldn’t find the quotes they quote, so told them the paper is an “A” if they can show me every quotation and failing otherwise. Does this seem like a fair policy (my thought is – no matter the method, fabrication of evidence is justification for failing work)?
Fail them on the first fake citation. Does your uni have SafeAssign or Turnitin?
No that shit is vaporware (the AI detection).
I use TII to verify quotes are real now (I turn off the quotation parsing thing so everyone’s paper should be between 20-35 percent “plagiarized”). AI detection is vaporware tho, may as well flip a coin.
I don’t care about the AI detection. I just recommend safeassign and turnitin to find fake/misattributed evidence
Yeah that’s what I’m doing. Ironic how I now get really suspicious when an essay is sub 20%