I'm sorry, so fucking angry. Students with sources that don't exist. Students with sources that exist but then the quotation doesn't exist.
I'm so fucking mad, because it's extra work for me (that I'm sure as hell not getting compensated for), and it also entirely defeats the purpose of the fucking class (it's writing/research, so like, engaging in a discipline and looking at what's been written before on your topic, etc.)
Kill me please. Comrades, I'm so tired. I just want to teach writing. I want to give students a way to exercise agency in the world -- to both see bad arguments and make good ones. They don't care. I'm so tired.
BTW, I took time to look up some of these sources my student used, couldn't find the quotes they quote, so told them the paper is an "A" if they can show me every quotation and failing otherwise. Does this seem like a fair policy (my thought is -- no matter the method, fabrication of evidence is justification for failing work)?
yeah... I wish I had a better suggestion for you. talking about it head on might help but that's assuming they listen and believe you when you say you aren't going to narc on them, and even then one or two speeches about it probably doesn't break the bad habits they developed/reinforce in other classes over time.
Yeah. Years of being policed means they have every motivation to deny (and indeed, they tell each other this too).
It's just an intractable problem.