Paper 4 Cover Letter for Teacher

With this paper I was trying to say that all of the different things that are considered as plagiarism do not deserve the same punishments. I described the different things that are considered plagiarism and wrote why patchwriting and misusing citations should not receive the same punishments as copying and pasting someones work and mentioned using different levels of punishment for these issues. I described how giving students another chance to fix things would help improve their writing. I mentioned how teachers jump right into punishing because of the policies that they have to follow and how the policies should be changed. I understood how people would argue that everyone deserves credit for their work and acknowledged what others might say. I think that my idea is working well and I have good points. I feel that maybe I might need to go more into different ideas but I am not sure which ones or how I should go about doing that. My peer review fixed some grammatical errors and gave me advice on using different words in different areas and changing some sentences which I did. Also, she told me to elaborate more on the idea of the different levels which I tried to do but am not sure how I should go about doing it more.

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