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

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Here’s a thought experiment: Over the summer, a student reads James Joyce’s Ulysses. He’s so taken with it that he writes an essay about the religious thems in the novel. He puts it in a drawer. In the fall, he takes a class on Joyce–and turns that essay in as his first paper. What, if anything, is unethical about that?

Or what about this - THe student’s teacher reads the paper and is so taken with it he/she submits it to a contest, where the student wins first prize. And then the contest officials publish it in their collection of papers from the contest. And then a journal or magazine is so taken with it that they ask to reprint it. And then the student uses a portion of it for their college essay.</p>

<p>My God. By now, after what, quadruple or quintuple dipping, the student certainly deserves capital punishment.</p>

<p>I can see the other side’s point, at least to some degree.
Certainly people can at least see some ambiguity in this rule.</p>