lcat and Sophia,
so, the student is a master's level student and I think if she passes both classes this term, she will graduate. Whether or not she graduates this term now has no impact on my decision. Before I was thinking I would try to help her meet the December graduation deadline, but that consideration is entirely off the table now.
Get this: she plagiarized on a rewrite of a paper I made her redo from last semester. It was bad and I would not let a student complete my class with such bad writing. Beau thinks just on GP that I should fail her because the rewrite WAS her 2nd chance.
Two things are at issue for me that aren't personal (as in: WHY did she do this in my class? *scream*) -
1) I think it is a serious problem for someone to graduate with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree and not know how to properly cite and not know what plagiarism is. She claimed not to realize that if you paraphrase, you should include the author and date and that direct quotes from the internet should be cited.
2) given #1, if I read the problem as partially the result of her ignorance, she won't become knowledgeable about it unless I make her do an assignment.
She is not a good student, she does not write well. I sent her to the Writing Center previously and her papers (supposedly after their help) are barely "B" level writing.