Student turns in same paper for two classes - What do you think penalty should be?

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<p>THis is what I read from the ACS article -

Authors should not engage in self-plagiarism (also known as duplicate publication) - unacceptably close replication of the author’s own previously published text or results without acknowledgement of the source. ACS applies a “reasonable person” standard when deciding whether a submission constitutes self-plagiarism/duplicate publication. If one or two identical sentences previously published by an author appear in a subsequent work by the same author, this is unlikely to be regarded as duplicate publication. Material quoted verbatim from the author’s previously published work must be placed in quotation marks. In contrast, it is unacceptable for an author to include significant verbatim or near-verbatim portions of his/her own work, or to depict his/her previously published results or methodology as new,** without acknowledging the source.**

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<p>This merely says you have to acknowedge the source, not that you can’t do it. I understand that this implies (I guess) that the student should tell the teacher about the duplication. As I’ve said countless time, I understand that there is a rule against this.</p>

<p>But this does not prohibit this “self plagiarism”. It merely says that you should quote yourself. Which renders the rule silly in my opinion. Which I am allowed to have, BTW.</p>

<p>I believe that there are valid reasons to prohibit the theft of someone else’s work without attribution. Your own work? I don’t see it the same way. The fact that anybody could see these two things as even close is bizarre to me. The former is intrinsically morally wrong, the latter is “improper” and “not acceptable” because, by definition, the rules don’t accept it.</p>