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How much plagiarism will you tolerate? 

I teach at a small college and I'm presently involved in a case of plagiarism where the student has gotten her parents and my boss involved. This lead me to wonder what the general consensus is on plagiarism. Do you allow any of it? Would you let it slide if the student was just missing quotation marks or forgot to add something to their bibliography? Does anyone have a zero tolerance policy for all cheating? Are there some people who let flagrant plagiarism (buying/copying essays from the web) slide just because reporting students is so much trouble? 

Just curious what people's standards are.
gpt
I think the line between plagiarism and misattribution is pretty clear. If you would have accepted the paper with the quotation marks in, it's misattribution, and the student should get a warning talk and maybe a small grade penalty. If the quotation marks wouldn't have made it okay, it's plagiarism.

Fortunately for me, though, the university where I've been teaching had an office that took care of all this stuff. They made all the decisions about guilt and sanctions.