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Cheating Made Easy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the find-it-on-the-intarweb dept.

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."

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  1. Who Cares about Cheating? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I just saved a bunch of money by switching to GEICO!!!!

  2. My Grades Prove that I Don't Cheat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yo buss dis. i once greasy weedses of the kopiesack uh become the smellies skunk. I went to English classs an' gone sit, a couple minutes latuh hears I that fragrance "Whats? It smells loves skunk" a couple mo minutes latuh halfly the classroom could smell somethin. My mentioned teachuh evun, "Yeah, a skunk must've sprayed nearbye" I gravy sat dere smilin an' laughin, heh, high I wuz. Sheeit!