Western Governors and Transfer Nursing credits

[empatheticRN]

Hi everyone. I just completed a transcript eval with WGU and unfortunately two nursing classes that I took for a RN-BSN with Thomas Edison State college weren't accepted. I did nursing research and Informatics with TESC and received a "B' for both. I'm now required to do Evidence Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research & Information Management and the Application of Technology at WGU which are basically the same classes. I was really hoping to get credits for the 2 nursing classes that I've completed toward my BSN. There was no problem transferring the ADN nursing classes nor my community college electives. I just feel horrible since I wrote so many papers/posts for these BSN nursing classes at TESC. Did anyone else have trouble transferring nursing classes from another BSN program?

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

I wonder what those who would insist on self-plagiarism as a valid problem would think of college students who submit dozens of applications for scholarships....all using the same essay, or a variation or variations of that original essay? Common practice, and as long as the essay matches what the scholarship committee ASKED FOR in the essay submission....would someone insist that it's really plagiarism because it's not a brand new essay for every committee? If so...I weep for the insanity of it.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

As a student, I would LOVE to be able to reuse my academic writing, believe me. No outrage here! I just know what they allow (30% match up on directly quoted information, properly cited).

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

As a student, I would LOVE to be able to reuse my academic writing, believe me. No outrage here! I just know what they allow (30% match up on directly quoted information, properly cited).

How would they know %ages of what you submitted before? And how would they know what she submitted to another program elsewhere?

[iamdwhite95]

@empatheticRN I was a student @WGU. I resubmitted one of MY OWN papers which they put through their plagarism site. Bottom line, I had to re-write the paper again., unfortunately, almost from scratch. It doesn't matter who the words belong to, if "x" amount of words match up, your paper will get sent back to you, with a nice little "note" and final reminder.

[klone, MSN, RN]

How would they know %ages of what you submitted before? And how would they know what she submitted to another program elsewhere?

Turnitin

Most universities are using it nowadays

http://turnitin.com/