My Reaction To Amanda's Case
Admittedly, Amanda has been through a tragedy that she was accused for something that she had never done--plagiarizing. Her instructor simply put her paper into the well-known website Turnitin and discovered fraction of her paper was not cited. Fighting against her college, Amanda was also struggling with the annoying online war about her story after she posted her case.
Although I'm secretly questioning slightly about Amanda's honesty because there indeed appeared flags in Turnitin, the instructor and the college truly did something that is irresponsible and inconsiderate. First, her instructor only took a look on the output of Turnitin but he didn't deeply research the matched source. As the author wrote, the Eskimos? Obviously there is little relativity between the topic "Lifting the ban on same-sex marriage in Texas" and the Eskimos. Therefore, I think the instructor should at least think about this source and go talk to Amanda instead of simply gave her an F and tag her "cheater" forever. Second, the college's unfollowing the procedure and ignorance toward Amanda's request make people think. Why doesn't the university face the problem directly and get it over with quickly? It seems a bit irresponsibility in my point of view as an outsider.
However, it's not all Amanda's instructor and her college aroused the online war. Actually, Amanda herself is the main reason why she is deeply entangled with this tiresome online affair. Hadn't she posted her story and keep focusing on the comments, instead of focusing on more realistic ways to deal with this problem, she wouldn't be that annoyed and helpless. What is more, it is her "advertising" that set a rock on her way to success in the future.
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