A student sends in a brilliant introduction for the final essay. And instead of simply enjoying it and feeling good about how well I’ve taught my students to write, I immediately start Googling it to see if it’s been plagiarized.
It’s sad to have become so jaded. Remember, students, when you cheat, you make your teachers gradually lose faith in humanity. And that’s a great disservice you are doing to new generations of students.
I hear you. I also googled a fiction a student wrote in my Advanced Spanish class. It was *almost* of publishable quality. My student is very good, s/he could have written the short story, but It saddens me that my doubts tone down my enthusiasm.
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So I assume what you read was originally by the student?
I loved writing essays in school, so I never cheated, but maybe that was because I have always loved writing.
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The sad part is “your” choice to become jaded. 😦
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