After a fashion, anyway.
After my kids turned in their first short paper, I handed back a LOT of Ds and low Cs, mainly because the dumbasses thought my prompts were, I don't know, mere suggestions or guidelines or random marks on a page created through natural erosion... whatever.
I was gratified, however, to see visits to my office, emails requesting clarification of various issues covered in class, and submissions of drafts have jumped roughly 400% in the run-up to the due date for the second paper.
They learn. Kind of, I guess. We'll see whether any of the content has successfully penetrated, but, pending that, I think I can say they're starting to get the idea on how they're supposed to go about playing this game.
Congrats! I find when I communicate what I want clearly (in other words, when I repeatedly make sure they know I don't take any nonsense), they do improve. I still check for plagiarism, though, particularly when the improvement seems miraculous.
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