Anonymous #1 5d

To make a very long story short, a girl at OU wrote an absolutely piss poor essay for a psych class in which she cited no sources, made a litany of grammar and sentence construction errors, essentially writing at a middle school level. As a result, she got a 0 on the assignment. HOWEVER, the TA who graded the essay was trans, so this girl went to turning point and the university admin to claim religious discrimination, which ultimately ended up with OU canceling the grade and firing the TA.

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Anonymous OP 5d

firing the TA??? wtf???

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Anonymous OP 5d

Oh shittt that’s crazy I did hear about the essay stuff but didn’t hear anything that came of it or any details

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Anonymous #3 5d

I don’t agree with the content of her essay, the idea that women whole purpose is to be helpers of man is pretty gross (she does go into a paragraph long explanation about how helper isn’t intended as derogatory word, although it still reads like one)

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Anonymous #3 4d

every “fact” was plagiarized and the response didn’t answer the prompt

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Anonymous #4 4d

wait she plagiarized? in that case then it makes complete sense that she got a zero

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Anonymous #3 4d

I’m pretty sure she just did that bad of a job. She did not cite any sources at all. She didn’t even properly cite the Bible. And she didn’t address the actual article for the assignment, among other numerous failures

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Anonymous #2 4d

i could see her being told to redo with citations for a reduced grade if the TA/prof is feeling generous but she also made it very clear that she half assed the assignment and didn’t read the article she was supposed to be responding to, so i don’t see her flipping through the bible to find the info she used either

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Anonymous #3 4d

I’m confused by a lot of yall reply’s. It really seems yall are bandwagoning this without even reading her essay. It was written with purely the Bible in mind, there were no “facts” just belief so what facts did she plagerize? Yea she didn’t cite anything but citations are usually 10-15% of total grade, so that doesn’t come close to explained a 0 grade. And her entire essay was addressing the article saying “I disagree it’s demonic” it’s bad, but saying she didn’t address the article is a lie

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Anonymous #3 4d

you just said she wrote it “with purely the Bible in mind.” did she cite the Bible because otherwise that’s plagiarism… also idk what college you go to, but every single class I’ve had will give you a 0 for plagiarizing

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Anonymous #2 4d

She doesn’t present the Bible as her own original ideas. Nor does she directly quote the Bible anywhere in her essay. The ideas she used in her essay aren’t unique to the Bible either. Yes she should sited it but seriously forgetting to cite 1 thing is worthy of a plagiarism charge? Either way this is a moot point because she wasn’t given a 0 for plagiarism. In this hypothetical world u created where that’s the reason she got a 0 then yes that would make slightly more sense

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Anonymous #3 4d

did you not say her entire essay was rooted in the Bible… that’s a pretty important thing. also, genuinely, how do you know she didn’t get a 0 for plagiarism?

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Anonymous #3 4d

forgetting to cite one thing isn’t the same thing as forgetting to cite the entire basis behind your essay and every piece of “evidence” used lol. one missing in text citation is understandable, an entire missing works cited is not. what’s confusing you about not citing your sources? if your essay cites the bible you have to cite the bible as evidence. if you says god wants xyz, you cite where the bible says that.

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Anonymous #3 4d

she addressed this in an interview and said she didn’t really read it, argue with her

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Anonymous #4 4d

Yea rewording it doesn’t change the fact she forgot to site 1 thing. She never uses evidence in her essay, did u even read her essay? She wrote the whole thing off believe, there was no evidence. If she got a 0 for plagiarism there would have been an accompanying academic dishonesty charge, which there wasn’t.

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Anonymous #3 4d

Idk if the school that absolutely prostrated itself to this girl would hit her with an academic dishonesty charge…

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Anonymous #5 4d

Well times linear, cause and effect yknow? So the effect won’t retroactively stop the cause from ever existing.

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Anonymous #3 4d

I’m saying if they would do that, they may not reliably uphold academic integrity in the first place

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Anonymous #3 4d

yes i did, did you? god created…” “god made…” “god is very intentional with xyz” these are all claims that needs to be supported by textual evidence and she did not do that. just because the bible isn’t actually evidence of something doesn’t mean she’s not making claims about the bible and not backing them up. there’s a reason the bible is cite-able and it’s because you’re supposed to cite it

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