Yesterday I went to english ready to turn in my essay that I typed the night before. I handed in my essay and when my teacher came around to reading mine she was blown away by my story telling and choice of words. All I did was make up a story about the first main quest of how you have go tell the Jarl of Whiterun theres a dragon coming this way and you have to go and get the dragonstone and stuff like that. I was amazed how she fell for it . She asked to share it with another class and said of course. So really Skyrim gave an A+ on my essay!

Congradulations!!! My English teacher would never go for that.

Epic win.

I was actually considering doing something similar to this too.

lol, I bet you're going to get busted when she reads it out to another class and some kid thinks 'wait a minute.... I know this....'

Oh my god...I have to write a fictional story for class so just might do this...wow great idea

Your teacher probably plays Skyrim, too.

Hehe, I see myself in this, at least to some degree. Every time I had to write an essay in middleschool(13-15/16 is middleschool right?) I used TES as my setting. I almost always got grade 5 out of 6.

It's called plagiarism. You'll be very lucky if you actually get away with it. In college it will earn you an "F" and possible expulsion.

*high five*

absolute plagiarism.

i'd be careful.

Dude...all I can say is you've been pretty lucky (so far).

absolutely.

i had a buddy who worked on an assignment with me and so i let him have a copy when he went home so he could make his copy.

turned out, that he didn't actually change my homework into his own words except for some superficial bits here and there. our professor came in all huff-puff and then left. i caught her in the hallway, she yelled out the word plagiarism and walked away.

i went into class cussing/barking up a storm because i knew i didn't plagiarize anything. the teacher and students were like aghast, lol, while i'm yelling out stuff like, "no teacher is going to accuse me of that blank." i was serious not going to stand for being treated that way.

well, my buddy wasn't quite reacting like i was, lol.

and, we're just talking a homework assignment where working together was recommended. not an actual essay.

Do not ever do this again.

Nonsense. It is not plagiarism when the story was told with his/her own words. Skyrim is not more than the inspiration.

Only when you take a written text and change the author's name does it become plagiarism.

lol good idea

So, when the other class points out that you ripped everything straight from Skyrim won't she just take your grade away? I just took english 101 last quarter and there were quite a few Skyrim addicts in the class. I'd be worried.

Wait, is this an essay about Skyrim? Or like a story in your own words set in Skyrim? Usually for an essay in school it's not a fictional format, did you do it like a review of the game?

What other story can the OP have told than his own? It is a role playing game and it does not have a fixed plot.

If it's in your own words, then most teachers do not consider it plagiarism, however, if it's C&P'd then I would worry...

Wrong. It is plagiarism even if you use someone else's idea. If you use 3 or more words together and it is taken from somewhere than that is plagiarism also. You need to cite Skyrim if your basing an essay off of their creation.

Can't believe how many people complimenting him on this. Don't try this in higher education, or you might get called to a board/expelled.

The objective was to use your imagination and make up a story and write it interestingly. You directly ripped off from a work of fiction. I'd much rather hand in a boring story about calipers than take credit for an epic narrative that was written by someone else.

Shame on you.

He stated that he wrote his essay based on the Main Quest, not his own experience. That is plagiarism.

Well, if it's not plag

So, OP, did you simply describe the events of the first main quest or did you create your RP character and write about those elements and how that first main quest situation affected your character?

If all you did was describe the situation that was found in the game then that comes close to plagiarism, (close but I don't think it would qualify as true plagiarism). But if you made it about your character and the back story your created then you are simply writing about stuff from your own brain that exists within the fictional setting of Skyrim and that's certainly not plagiarism.

As a former high school teacher, I think it depends on what was the original assignment. Both of the above opinions which are represented in this thread (I just chose the most recent two while I'm writing this) could be correct.

Was the assignment to create an original story line or something similar? Then, there's a case for plagarism, or at the very least, not completing the assignment properly. There is a clear storyline in Skyrim about a hero escaping death and dragons, becoming a "hero" for lack of a better term, and then helping the local citizenry. How the player goes about it in game doesn't matter. That's the story line for the beginning parts of the MQ in the game. If the OP just writes a story about how his Wood Elf archer (or whatever) went about this whole thing, then maybe it's ok.

But counter to the point - what if he told the story about how his father and brother were killed by the Thalmor, then he was raised by his uncle and travelled the world, then returned to Skyrim and lead a fight for Freedom. Stormcloaks? Or Braveheart? Plagarism? I don't know, depends on how closely it follows the storyline. But a clear case of inspired storytelling. But NOT if the object was to come up with an original story. OP didn't do that.

So, I've digressed, but I think plagarism would be hard to prove BUT there's a case for it depending on the assignment. Also, OP, I think you're risking a considerable amount of what I'll call "teacher goodwill" by letting her believe you came up with this great storyline that she's now going to share with others. All you'd need to do would be to say, "Hey, teach, by the way, I based it on a video game I play." As opposed to thinking you've got one up on the world, you ought to just open the dialogue, let her know where it came from, and then go from there.

I am pretty sure this is plagiarism, but if he wrote the story based on what happened but made up your own characters and towns would that still be plagiarism?