don't know who wrote this, but you should have taken this up higher since this is completely inappropriate. a professor has to _prove_ plagiarism, you don't have to _prove_ that you didn't do it.
>>After the final essay was handed in, the prof handed back the term
>>papers and mine had a note that said, `No grade! See me!'. So I went
>>the next day and met with him. He accused me of plagiarizing the
>>paper, on the basis that it was too good to be written by me. How do
>>you prove you didn't plagiarize? We argued for about twenty minutes and
>>I tried to demonstrate that I knew the paper and all the arguments and
>>could defend it because I had written it. No good. He just didn't
>>believe it. So instead of A or B, he gave me a C as a compromise since
>>I had gotten an A on the final. In other words, he just threw it out
>>anyway. Nice huh? I decided after that, English professors had their
>>head up their asses.
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>That's rubbish of course. It's quite different when you can produce the
>source from which the submitted paper was plagiarized. Plagiarism is
>pretty much de rigueur in law. I'll take propositions from cases word for
>word, no quotes, though with a cite, and plug 'em in.
>
>jks
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