Plagiarism - SNL

Teacher is well aware of students' history paper plagiarisms. Aired 05/03/03

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[Jackpl]

I took a Research and Writing class at Augusta University. The entire grade depended on the paper you wrote. One student submitted a paper. The professor, Dr. Calahine, was grading papers when she came to this student's. She read about half-way down the page, put an "F" on it, and went to the next paper in the stack. After she had passed back the papers, the student in question went to her office angry and demanded to know why she got an "F." Dr. Calahine reached back, took a book off her shelf, and showed the student were she had copied word-for-word. The book...was written by Dr. Calahine.

[notfontenot]

who else noticed at 5:10 he straight up caught that phone that was impressive

[ladyinthelocker]

You think this is comedy until you start to teach

[makeadifferenceall]

I'm a professor who has seen it all, just like in this skit. Once, a COLLEGE student submitted a paper to me with the watermark of the essay-writing company across every page. I'm guessing it was a free sample.

[Chemtekmain]

There was a girl at my old highschool who painted a portrait for a project and was proud of it so she uploaded it to a website before she turned it in. she was suspended for plagiarism. eventually she told them its her painting and the name of the account that they thought she plagiarized from was literally her name.

[jenniferb.awesome]

When I was in highschool I had a huge essay to write so I decided to use my older sisters essay that she had written when she was in my grade. The funny part is that I got an A on it while she got a C, it still pisses her off to this day whenever I bring it up.

[withtrees]

I had 2 students turn in the same paper once.

[allthingswavy]

When I taught community college English I would buy an essay from the web, hand it out and we'd score it together. Always earned a D or F from them. "No need to cheat when you can do better than this, right?" The plagiarism stopped.

[lilylock-hall]

Ashton Kutcher is literally just playing Kelso from that 70s Show

[johnrotten]

DAMN, seth nailed the douchey early 2000's look so well.

[Kym_]

"shouldn't read other ppls emails dude." 😂😂😂

[Android-jyhz]

Wow, this is like the calmest teacher ever in this situation...

[mgg]

True story: high school kid who tries to pass the lyrics to « Imagine » by John Lennon for his own poem 😂😂😂

[cliffordgreen]

My first year teaching, the first plagiarized paper I caught was - no joke- an essay on ethics.

[adriansherlockdamondark.]

One of my male students turned in a paper he'd gotten from the net in which the author talked about what she did with her husband. So I asked him "how's your husband?" in front of the whole class. He said "I don't have a husband!" Then I opened his paper and read it out. After the laughter died down, I told him he shouldn't be copying essays off the internet without reading them properly.

[michaelbarnes]

I like how Parnell is playing the teacher. He isn't over selling it or trying to steal the scene with his character. Each person is playing off of each other. Nice work and believable!

[DavidfromBA]

I'm reminded of a class I took a long time ago. We had to read our persuasive essays in front of the class. Some jock figured he'd be slick and plagiarize someone else's work. However he couldn't even be bothered to at least take a few minutes to skim through it before class. In the middle of presenting views which were supposedly his own, he paused for a moment and said "Well, I don't know about THAT." Another brilliantly conceived plan that inexplicably failed to work.

[tommyhill]

I think Seth's biggest mistakes were either printing in color... or his hair.

[FatherManus]

5:10 He actually didn't cheat, he just blatantly didn't do the assignment.

[liamcoulter]

The teacher staying calm and not getting angry is what makes this sketch