Hello,
I have a real silly problem.
This semester I took A political science course with an english professor called Nigel Parsons. I attended every single class, I got 3 B's in three midterm exams, I got a B+ in the first assignment paper, my average grade for this course was a B. he gave us a final assignment 2 days just before the ending of the semester. It was a two pages long paper about the political system in EGYPT. In the paper, I put a paragraph from a webcite as it is. ( Copied and Pasted it). I did not put quotation marks or cited the info. I forgot. He thought I cheated and did not cite the source. So he flunked me the whole course. This last assignment was only worth 10 % of the whole grade. I tried to tell him to give me an F in the paper and consider the other grades through out the semester but he's not givig me any chance. I really studied hard for this course, I hate politics, I can't repeat the course again, it was so broing. Please any suggestions on how can I convince him to change my grade.
Thanks,
Sheriff, 21-year-old Junior student at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Hey,

Unfortunately there is not much you can do. Even though you did not mean to plagiarise, you did.

You are very lucky you just failed the course. At my university, you can be suspended or even have your degree terminated.

The best you can do, is learn from the experience.. and cite everything and anything you use.

Good luck :)