I am in my second semester of grad school, pursuing a NP certificate. I am less than a week from finals, and I am unable to study. Why? Because I have a paper due for another class, and due to a certain person, I have to stay up till all hours to get it done.
Many of you will remember the "pinch her head off" thread about the same class, different lady. We had another group project due, and she turned her part in late, and it was of horrible quality. When I did not use a great deal of it, instead of confronting me, she phoned another group member who was out of state with a sick fiancee, and had her call me!
Fast forward- this gal turned her paper in a week early, and it was great!
The lady with the sick fiancee, well....he died. She did not drop the class, and we gave her a very small part to do for the final project, with a reasonable deadline. All we heard was "I'm clueless. What do I do?"
I finally told her to do as best she could, and I would tweak it if I needed to (I'm the editor, so I type up the finished paper). She submitted some work that she said was hers. The spelling was decidedly European, and this woman is not from Europe. I asked her again if it was hers, she said it was. So, I submitted our paper to turnitin.com, an anti-plagiarism site. It came back 18% plagiarized, all her stuff, all from wikipedia.com.
Now I have to fix it, but this just steams my clams, that a so-called professional would jeopardize our grade like that. Any advice? The prof is aware, and I can't wait to see what she does. Just want to know from you sane heads out there.
