Western Governors and Transfer Nursing credits

Hi everyone. I just completed a transcript eval with WGU and unfortunately two nursing classes that I took for a RN-BSN with Thomas Edison State college weren't accepted. I did nursing research and Informatics with TESC and received a "B' for both. I'm now required to do Evidence Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research & Information Management and the Application of Technology at WGU which are basically the same classes. I was really hoping to get credits for the 2 nursing classes that I've completed toward my BSN. There was no problem transferring the ADN nursing classes nor my community college electives. I just feel horrible since I wrote so many papers/posts for these BSN nursing classes at TESC. Did anyone else have trouble transferring nursing classes from another BSN program?
You can talk to them and ask what they are looking for in these classes and see if they will let you submit a copy of your course syllabus from when you took them to prove you have met requirements already. It may simply be that your previous course of study did not meet the rigors required for a degree at WGU.If not, you will be able to test out of these courses very quickly as this is a competency based program. If you had the courses already you will not have a difficult time passing them.

Quote from not.done.yetYou can talk to them and ask what they are looking for in these classes and see if they will let you submit a copy of your course syllabus from when you took them to prove you have met requirements already. It may simply be that your previous course of study did not meet the rigors required for a degree at WGU.If not, you will be able to test out of these courses very quickly as this is a competency based program. If you had the courses already you will not have a difficult time passing them.

I had a feeling, but I didn't want to speak out of turn in case I was wrong. It is a great program and you will do fantastic. If you are on Facebook, find the WGU RN to BSN page. It is HUGELY helpful! Good luck!!

Quote from empatheticRNThanks I just spoke with the counselor and she said they do not accept nursing classes from other RN-BSN programs. She even said an appeal wouldn't do any good because they will not consider. It shouldn't be hard to pass, its just that I have to do the work over and rewrite my papers. I can't just resubmit my papers because that would be plagiarism.

GrnTea, you are wrong on this one. �� All academia recognizes it and holds students to its standards, including WGU. With all papers now run through plagiarism software, it is far more easily caught than it used to be.What Is Self Plagiarism and How to Avoid Ithttp://www.du.ac.in/du/uploads/resea...plagiarism.pdfWGU allows for 30% match up on worded material, allowing for direct quotes from other sources, including self authored. More than that results in bad joo-joo.

Quote from GrnTeaNonsense. Plagiarism is using someone else's work and passing it off as your own without attribution. Your own work is your to resubmit if you like.

Quote from GrnTeaWGU gets to collect more tuition from you with this policy (quelle surprise!), but that doesn't mean you can't turn in your own work to them.

This is fascinating stuff about "self-plagiarism" I wouldn't have believed it wasn't just a money-grab.Would your previous work have to be published to be subject to plagiarism?If you resubmit and properly cite you're OK?If you substantially re-work and resubmit you're OK?

The whole goal in education is to learn. Even if subject matter is similar, one cannot prove learning is taking place by regurgitating something already done.

I think I've now heard it all. "Self-plagiarizing"?? While I can appreciate that an instructor wants you to learn from the assignment that has just been assigned, if I have already learned from that same question or essay assignment, I have a hard time picturing what is wrong with using my OWN WORK to demonsrate my understanding of said assignment.The point is to learn. I learned. If an instructor chooses to ask me something for which I have already prepared a response, that's doesn't seem reasonable that I shouldn't USE my prepared response. It's MY WORK.Now, if it's published, I can see some problems with re-publishing as new material. But if we're talking a classroom assignment.....it seems utterly absurd.

This is errant nonsense in the context of repeating a class. The link provided notes that this refers to infringing on someone else's copyright. Quotes below are from links above. However, while the debate on whether self-plagiarism is possible continues, the ethics of self-plagiarism is significant, especially because self-plagiarism can infringe upon a publisher’s copyright.

I wonder what those who would insist on self-plagiarism as a valid problem would think of college students who submit dozens of applications for scholarships....all using the same essay, or a variation or variations of that original essay? Common practice, and as long as the essay matches what the scholarship committee ASKED FOR in the essay submission....would someone insist that it's really plagiarism because it's not a brand new essay for every committee? If so...I weep for the insanity of it.