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Shadow Scholar Details Student Cheating
vortex2.71 writes "A 'shadow writer,' who lives on the East Coast, details how he makes a living writing papers for a custom-essay company and describes the extent of student cheating he has observed. In the course of editing his article, The Chronicle Of Higher Education reviewed correspondence he had with clients and some of the papers he had been paid to write. 'I've written toward a master's degree in cognitive psychology, a Ph.D. in sociology, and a handful of postgraduate credits in international diplomacy. I've worked on bachelor's degrees in hospitality, business administration, and accounting. I've written for courses in history, cinema, labor relations, pharmacology, theology, sports management, maritime security, airline services, sustainability, municipal budgeting, marketing, philosophy, ethics, Eastern religion, postmodern architecture, anthropology, literature, and public administration. I've attended three dozen online universities. I've completed 12 graduate theses of 50 pages or more. All for someone else.'"
Exactly - when I read the list I thought, "So, nothing that matters then..."
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Splines?
It's pretty funny that you wrote a report on this but can't remember the name for anything :p
which is totally what she said
That's flamebait if every I've seen it.
In what world do you live in that accounting, sustainability, maritime security and ethics do not matter?
Would you really like to live in a world where your employer had no money to pay you, farmers had no crops left to feed you, and pirates and foreign armies were free to invade via sea to rape your wife and daughters while everyone else either watched idly, or cheered them on?
which is totally what she said
Note that animal husbandry is okay, as long as it's not video documented.
I have a Liberal Arts degree - where do I sign up?
http://mcdonalds.com.au/careers/join-us
Sorry, someone had to say it. :P
You told us to write an ese, so we sent letters to our friends in Mejico
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Splines?
It's pretty funny that you wrote a report on this but can't remember the name for anything :p
That's proof that he hired someone to write the report ;-)
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don't be so smug, engineering-assholes, a little humanities would go a long way toward civilizing you.
Yeah, then they would be ... like .. civil engineers :-)
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
And that 10-pager I wrote on French opera in a two-year span of the 18th century, the only one in the class that got an A -- I'd like to see some shadow writer pull that out of thin air in 6 hours like I did.
....yeah, I'm just trying to make myself feel better after finally raking in the salary that my peers got right out of school.
"The Ethics of Cheating on my Ethics Thesis: Did I Cheat? Can You Tell? Does It Matter Anyway?"
In my time at school some of our teachers gave us free hand - bring what you want and see if you succeed.
The best anecdote about this was a physics exam at CalTech where the teacher allowed students to "consult Feynman", which was the standard textbook.
One student grabbed the exam sheet and ran to professor Feynman's office. Feynman, practical joker that he was, was glad to do the whole exam for him.
The professor supervising the final English 100 exam tells the 800 or so students in the exam hall “You will have 3 hours to complete this exam, not one minute more. Start writing when I say go and put your pens down when I stop.” When the three hours is up all the students stop writing except for one. He keeps furiously scribbling away as the papers are collected and stacked on the professors desk. As the last papers are stacked the student runs up to the front, paper in hand. The professor says “You know the rules; there is no way I am going to let you hand in that paper.” The student draws himself to his full height and in tones of Shakespearean high dudgeon says “Do you have any idea who I am!” “No” says the professor, and “I really don’t care.” “Good” says the student, slides his paper into the middle of one of the stacks of exams and walks out the door.
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
Wow, what an amusing and highly unverifiable anecdote! On the internet, no less!
You know what's ironic? (And I'm surprised nobody's called me out on it yet...) I realize after review that I put a sentence in that post without a verb. I have met the enemy, and he is me.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
Or, God forbid, you get hit by a bus and some other poor sucker has to figure out what you did and why.
Why are hypothetical programmers always being hit by hypothetical buses? Also, why is it always suggested that they are poor at documenting their hypothetical code?