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jefu writes "This NY Times story talks about the kinds of papers that students might find (and buy) on the web. It also mentions turnitin.com a site that will scan papers and attempt to determine if it was copied. The article uses 'The Great Gatsby' as an example and notes that for the time it takes to read the book and write a paper, buying a paper seems a poor tradeoff. However, many books (or required papers) involve much more work on the part of the student, so the question becomes that much more difficult. If you have to do a report on 'Ulysses' it takes a bit more than a few hours just to read the book - let along understand enough to do a reasonable paper on it."
If you're ripping off a paper about Gatsby just be sure to mention where he cleaned the dried bit of shaving cream off the other guy's cheek. English teachers love that part. At least I do, and now, if I see it in a paper, I'll assume you're a /.'er and I'll give you an A for the semester so you can sneak out and go drinking.
/., I can think back of Daisy saying, "I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything... Sophisticated -- God, I'm sophisticated!"
That way, when it's 1:06am and I'm up grading papers and slacking off reading
...the cheat I could have really used in school was a wallhack into the teacher's lounge.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
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All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Copying one person is plagarism, copying many people is research.
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
In some cases it is easier than in other.
My cousin bought a research paper in high school and turned it in.
He got caught.
He didn't take into account that:
1) The teacher was his nearest neighbor. He lived about 1/4 mile down the road from my cousin.
2) The teacher was our school bus driver. We even talked about his buying the paper on the bus. I don't know if our conversation was overheard.
3) The teacher was his Sunday school teacher.
The teacher knew my cousin too well to know that my cousin wrote that paper.
Maybe Slashdot should start submitting its articles to turnitin?
Don't you know Pi tastes good?
Besides, the ladies love guys who can do integrals and differentials of non-rational numbers in their head. Or if you really want to show off, whip out your slide rule and go old skool on them.
When you can just buy the damn degree! (itll take you 5 days).
Because it might help improve your spelling? :-)
"Ulysses is unreadable, illiterate crap".
There, what more need one say about that awful book?
All work submitted to Turnitin is checked against three databases of content:
[...]
3. Millions of student papers already submitted to Turnitin.
So the teachers commit copyright infringement by submitting their students' works to turnitin and turnitin commits grand scale copyright infringement by copying, preserving and capitalising on "millions of student papers" without the students' permission. Great business!
You cannot speak convincingly of something that you did not write.
Politicians do it all the time.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
My High School english classes were often irrelevant and pointless. We'd read feminist literature or classical Greek myths.
College, on the other hand, was much more interesting. We read Fight Club and the Last American Man, watched Family Guy, etc and plotted their significance in society.
Really a fascinating class.
This one time he was helping some students with their code, and was impressed how they had done it.
That is, until he realized it was his code! Apparently someone had stolen his code from when he had taken it and kept it archived for later.
How many of you have ever helped or been helped by a boyfriend/girlfriend? I know of several instances of advanced degrees that were really earned by significant others. (It only seems to be possible in soft subjects, like English or Social Sciences.)
Love makes people do strange (and unethical) things.
I once wrote all of the essays for a g/f in a college-level English class. I was proud of them. They were really good - too good. One time, her laziness saved her from being caught: she skipped a class after having turned in one of my best efforts, and, luckily, therefore missed having to read it aloud to the rest of the class. I'd put too many words in that she didn't know and couldn't pronounce properly. The close call told me I had to dumb my stuff down a bit.
How the teacher never caught on, I'll never know, though it may have had something to do with how hot she was. There are certainly many ways to catch this kind of thing (as the above discussions show). He gave her an A+ and a glowing recommendation that helped her to transfer to a better college. I felt bad about aiding and abetting. That g/f is long gone, but I believe her lack of a good foundation in English eventually caught up with her (I'm now married to someone who'd not have needed nor would have sought such help).
Speaking as someone who actually read Ulysses, I think actually taking the time to read the book actually makes you LESS able to write an intelligent essay. I sure as hell had a better idea of what the book was about before I read it.
I thought it was just me, but then I ran accross this guy who described reading Ulysses as "...like having a rib ripped out of my body, being beaten with it, raped with it, and then being forced to eat it," which about sums up my feelings for it.
In conclusion, if there are any schoolchildren out there, there is no course of academic plagarism whose punishment is worse than actually having to read Ulysses! For gods sake, don't let it kill again.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Billy was to write a brief essay on some topic--I forget what. A few paragraphs. No big deal, right?
Billy didn't hand in the essay all term. Mrs. Smith allowed him repeated extensions, hoping to get Billy to turn at least something in. Billy performed poorly on tests, but survived some of the assignments, probably through the assistance of his fellow students.
Mrs. Smith fully expected Billy to wash out during the exam, but was willing to give him every opportunity to get his act together. Finally, on the last day of French class, Billy proudly presented his paper, then dashed off to his next lecture.
After the exam, Mrs. Smith sat down with Billy.
"Billy," said she, "I'm a little bit concerned about the paper you handed in."
"Really, Mrs. S? What...what seems to be the trouble?" Billy plays it cool.
"Well, I'm a bit worried that it might not be entirely your own work..."
"Why would you think that?"
"For one thing, the language seems awfully advanced in places. I'm wondering if you perhaps had some help for parts of it...?" Relief bloomed on Billy's face. He was saved. He had an out.
"Well, yes, Mrs. Smith. I did..um..have someone help me..put a few words down...but I pretty much wrote it."
"And then there's the second thing. The paper is in Spanish."
~Idarubicin
"Besides, the ladies love guys who can do integrals and differentials of non-rational numbers in their head. "
;)
Yeah because the derivative of a constant function is so hard to do in your head.
stealing from one person is plagerism
stealling from many is research
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