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Amanda Serpico Case

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The case of plagiarism I found was about a student named Amanda Serpico, she was a student at Rutgers college, Amanda was doing a paper for her Argumentation course. Amanda was writing her final paper which was an opinion paper arguing the politics of gay marriage. While Amanda was on christmas break her professor wrote an email stating that her paper had been detected for using plagiarism. Amanda fought back stating that she did not plagiarize and used tools provided by the college, the software she used was Turnitin. Amanda appealed her case saying that the software Turnitin was flawed, Amanda lost her case and received a “F” in the course. Amanda was allowed to graduate from Rutgers but as a result of the “F” she did get denied from her

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