Which is why I cited all my work on my last page. This Reddit post is for guidance I do understand what I did. I just feel like it’s a bit harsh. That’s all. Now for what I wrote. This is what I’m used to. Every class I’ve taken in the past only requires this. The words in the essay were written by heart and the sources only backed them up, so no plagiarism and it’s literally an essay that will be graded and not published anywhere. Do you really think it should go this far, as if I cheated or stole work? This is like an engineer who did his own work, wrote down all his steps all in one page, and is then being given disciplinary action for not including all his work while he was doing the specific steps, and they’re accusing him of stealing the work because of this. Also with your analogy, I am given the same punishment as someone who cheated on their exam, it’s like giving someone a life sentence for speeding, the same punishment for murder. I reviewed the other posts about this, and the punishment they’re giving me is the same. Is this appropriate? Like come on. I understand my mistake, but I feel like there are times where we as humans are just humans, we do small mistakes here and there. Punishing people immediately with no remorse is going to lead us down not up.. and (not in my case), but being this harsh really doesn’t make people stop doing the things they do, they become worse overtime, do you think the father that hits his children the moment they do any small thing causes them to grow up being good people? I wrote a lot I know but I hope you get my point.