I came across this student-instructor correspondence [provided later in this post] while searching for other material on my hard drive. The Student-In-Question was an excellent writer as well as considerably bright. He was in his late 20s or early 30s.
In my class, he also was functionally indolent.
I plan to use this anecdote and others for my tome about The Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse.
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Actually, the student wrote:
“I have a big problem with my paper that is due tomorrow. The notes that I took have are gone I think my roommates pit bull ate them, for real, they are nowhere to be found.”
I am writing about this episode not to ridicule a student (who opened herself up to sharp rebuke), but because this was my first dog ate my homework affair.
I responded:
Tags:academic cheating, academic integrity, homework, pit bulls, The Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse
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