Latina Accused of Plagiarizing After Using ‘Hence’ in Essay

New York Post ^ | October 30, 2016 | Linda Massarella

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

You sir forgot Smoker, Mash Tun and local Karaoke DJ/Mechanic and his fun foibles. I see age as something to avoid. I say live in the here and now. The Trump is here and Now. Damn the torpedoes screw the whites of their eyes, I have not yet begun to fight. Been biding my time for a long damned time. It’s time to unleash the PEPE KRAKEN.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

http://pepe-the-frog.com/news/kraken/2016-01-11-398

You still wont get it even tho we are just a few years apart in age.

I am young tho old.

[DesertRhino]

He’s asking her to cite a source? If she didn’t attribute it, and still HAS a source, THAT is plagiarism.

[kevao]

She should just cite Merriam-Webster.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Should a used ‘therefore’

[TheWriterTX]

I find it slightly disconcerting how a college senior doesn't know that hence, as a transition word, should be preceded by a semi-colon and followed by a comma. This rule also applies to therefore and however, as well. You should not use these words at the start of a sentence.

That being said, her professor is an idiot.

[CARDINALRULES]

In high school I had a list of words that I liked to use for essays that I would rarely use otherwise. I called it my BS list and used them to make my answers be more than just the facts I knew. Sometimes they were just fillers to make my essay meet the required amount of words needed. Never failed to get me a better grade.

[Do_Tar]

So... YOU wrote it for her! (g)

[Jack Hammer]

Whoops - did the prof screw the pooch?

[trebb]

He marked "this is not your word". I'd wager he's familiar with the article/source she copied the phrase from w/o citing it.

Trying to teach her a valuable lesson and she wants to cry.

[zaxtres]

You could be an Australopithecan if you really wanted. But dirt is much older than the flood.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

The definition I was going for is the ridiculously old-fashioned one, but bravo.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Few people talk the way they write and there is a world of deference between the way they write informally, for example on Facebook or a chat room, and the way they would write a school paper.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

For example if this had been a school paper I would have caught that I should have used the word "difference" rather then "deference".

Never post between coming home from work and dinner.

[Steve Schulin]

As a sophomore in college, I took a medical sociology course. A research paper was a major part of the grade. On the last day of class, the professor passed out all the graded papers, except for mine. He announced: "Mr. Schulin, please see me after class." When I came to him, he said "I don't know where you plagiarized your paper from, but this far exceeds what an undergraduate could produce. You get an F for the paper and for the class." I smiled and said "Dr. Tavani, I'm glad to hear you say this exceeds your expectations for any undergraduate, because I'm sure that after I show you my research file, you will have no doubt that I wrote this paper myself. I expect nothing less than a A." He agreed to wait for an hour while I drove home and retrieved my 4x6 card fileboxes. I ended up getting the only A in the class.

I didn't begrudge my professor's initial poor opinion of me. I was delighted to learn that I exceeded his expectation of what was possible.

[Windflier]

Good for you, Steve. Great story!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

A Bronx Latina is probably a Puerto Rican woman who is Americanized. Therefore, the word “hence” is not outside the realm of her vocabulary. Think of Jennifer Lopez using the word hence — totally believable.

I’m a Puerto Rican woman raised in Puerto Rico and I use “hence” all the time.

The funny part about this is that the professor is most likely a liberal jerk who just stereotyped this woman.

[wintertime]

Even common words, ( for example the word, “squirrel”) are not used frequently.

When learning Spanish I often thought about how hard it is to learn common vocabulary that isn't used often when speaking, reading, or writing.