<p>^ I stand by what I said. Unless they’re deliberately deceiving themselves, students know that when a professor assigns a paper, she doesn’t just mean “turn in a paper,” she means “write a paper.” And if it’s not clear, it’s the student’s responsibility to ask, and the answer will be, “Of course you can’t just turn in a previously submitted paper; don’t be ridiculous. Now if you want to do some major revisions or extensions on a previously submitted paper, that’s something we can reasonably talk about.”</p>