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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. Studying by rf0 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    There was an argument in a report I read recently that as the internet becomes more prevaliant that studying as a whole will become less important as information will be avialable at your finger tips. The skills that will become more useful are the ability to search effeciently and work out which sources you can trust. Of course studying helps develop these skills but why should I remeber PI to 8 decimial places when I can look it up quicker?

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    1. Re:Studying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

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  2. beware of plagerism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Don't do this in a university, or you will be in more trouble than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. however, if you try to pretend that you know something that you do not, you belong there in the first place...

  3. Bible is a fake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I put the "Holy Word" in the copy-checker, and it told me the bible was copied. This is world shocking news....