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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:13 pm
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Sorry if there's a subforum for this sort of thing...
So, I met this guy on a cruise. He's a professor and faculty member in a university (not a very high-end one). We made friends and hung out together (which might have looked a little weird... I'm a late teen and he's in his late 50s/early 60s). I was kind of interested in his field, so he promised to introduce me to it when we got home (he lives and works way beyond traveling distance from me).
So he sent me some papers, I think about 4 or 5, and I read them.
Then he wanted me to do an executive summary on two of the papers that I'd read. For those of you who don't know, an executive summary is a major stripdown (maybe two lines long) of an article or book. I sent him this. He sent it back complaining that it wasn't fleshed out enough and described an abstract, which is basically a cut-and-paste stripdown, a little longer than an exec. summary, of the book or paper. I sent him this.
It finally turned out that what he'd really wanted was a report in my own words. He had a total fit, accused me of plagiarism (specifically of going on other Internet sites and stealing what other people had written about these papers; the thought had never even crossed my mind). He claimed he could prove that I'd plagiarized because he had apparently Googled the phrases out of my abstract, but I Googled them and found nothing but the papers I was doing the abstract on!
I apologized for the fact that our signals had crossed and offered to re-do it the way he wanted it, but he shut down on me and told me he didn't want to talk to me for a month. He also told me not to bother sending him the new version of the report before a month because he'd be "still sore with me".
He really was acting as if I was somehow unworthy of him, and that I'd let him down.
I'm kind of put out and upset with him... somehow, I don't think this is proper behavior for a professor. I mean, I blow it once (because he misleads me) and he dumps on me? He himself remarked that his students complain that he's not clear in his assignments.
Should I drop him or should I send him the report in a month? Who do you think is in the right here?
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:40 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:02 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:06 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:57 am
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:04 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:37 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:41 am
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~Spirit of Dragons~ Sorry if there's a subforum for this sort of thing...
So, I met this guy on a cruise. He's a professor and faculty member in a university (not a very high-end one). We made friends and hung out together (which might have looked a little weird... I'm a late teen and he's in his late 50s/early 60s). I was kind of interested in his field, so he promised to introduce me to it when we got home (he lives and works way beyond traveling distance from me).
So he sent me some papers, I think about 4 or 5, and I read them.
Then he wanted me to do an executive summary on two of the papers that I'd read. For those of you who don't know, an executive summary is a major stripdown (maybe two lines long) of an article or book. I sent him this. He sent it back complaining that it wasn't fleshed out enough and described an abstract, which is basically a cut-and-paste stripdown, a little longer than an exec. summary, of the book or paper. I sent him this.
It finally turned out that what he'd really wanted was a report in my own words. He had a total fit, accused me of plagiarism (specifically of going on other Internet sites and stealing what other people had written about these papers; the thought had never even crossed my mind). He claimed he could prove that I'd plagiarized because he had apparently Googled the phrases out of my abstract, but I Googled them and found nothing but the papers I was doing the abstract on!
I apologized for the fact that our signals had crossed and offered to re-do it the way he wanted it, but he shut down on me and told me he didn't want to talk to me for a month. He also told me not to bother sending him the new version of the report before a month because he'd be "still sore with me".
He really was acting as if I was somehow unworthy of him, and that I'd let him down.
I'm kind of put out and upset with him... somehow, I don't think this is proper behavior for a professor. I mean, I blow it once (because he misleads me) and he dumps on me? He himself remarked that his students complain that he's not clear in his assignments.
Should I drop him or should I send him the report in a month? Who do you think is in the right here? I think u should totally stop talking 2 him, he sounds really strange.
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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:23 am
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