Cheating Made Easy

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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Cheating = by product of capitalist system

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Again folks cheating is a by product of the almighty dollar, welcome to capitalism 101.

Where people compete for the best jobs/marks, you can bet many people are not going to get their on merit alone. Even assuming one legitimately got through the system. The quality of teaching and what is being taught varies so widely (even in countries that have 'good education'). Rich or popular people are especially 'favored' in academia, your marks are as good as as much money you're willing to throw at the school in question. Many teachers know that money has too much negative influence in higher education. But when the sole purpose many people pursue it is for money - you've got two competing contradictory interests at work.