The college I work for is addressing this issue by developing Alternative Instructional Materials (AIM) for lower level classes that most students need. Example: Composition I
These materials are distributed in electronic format (free of charge) to the students. The students receive a text that is custom made for the class and can be easily updated as needed.
Some students like the concept, some don't. Some of the students feel that they have to print the electronic documents and feel that it is unfair to be expected to print a large amount of material.
Overall, the concept is working great and I think additional texts will be replaced. This doesn't make the publisher book representatives very happy but tough for them.
With sites like turnitin.com and others sites developing broad databases, students are going back to the roots of plagiarism. They go to the library and copy out of a book. Most books are not in the anit-plagiarism databases. An instructor may feel that the document is plagiarized but be unable to find concrete proof. Instructors have to have hard evidence. A student can always come back and sue the universisty since the rest of their life may be affected by this instance.
My favorite way of catching plagiarizers is when I type the first sentence in Google and the site they took the paper from comes up.
Except this is almost statistically impossible. Whenever you put more than 8 words together, the chance of someone else putting together the same 8 words in the same order is highly unlikely. Your paper will be writen in your style or voice. That is unique to every person.
There is study on this somewhere. It was presented in a seminar I attended.
"2. SCO also has produced all non-privileged repsonsive documents requested by IBM. The only exception to such production is files of certain officers and directors for whom SCO could not obtain the requested materials during the holidays with sufficient time to review the documents."
I didn't realize that the deadline was optional.
Judge: Have you produced all of the required information?
Lawyer: Dude, it was Christmas. We will get you that info when we have time.
I couldn't put this book down and was chomping at the bit for the sequel to come out. Nobody is sacred to Martin. Death and chaos abound, major characters become minor, minor characters become major, and when the book is done you say "well I didn't see that coming".
The history of the world is very rich. "The Hedge Knight" which Martin wrote for "Legends: New Short Novels" published by Tor (Jordan, Goodkind, Feist and Pratchett also had stories published in the work) explains some of the references to historical figures that are made in "A Game of Thrones", "A Storm of Swords" and "A Clash of Kings".
I hope that Martin finishes the series in six books and none of them are fillers. Martin definitely sets the bar high for heroic fantasy writers.
A backdoor allows you to make changes and tweaks after the application (or site) goes live but they just aren't worth it. Especially if it ever dawns on the customer that you have made changes (such as a bug fix) without consulting them. If you need to change the software then you need to consult the customer. Period.
If the customer ever figures out that there is a back door or if it is abused by a third party, they will never hire you or your company again.
My advisor was the same way. He was bound and determined to use these ancient FORTRAN programs. I ended using Perl to generate data files and run batch jobs with the Fortran programs. He was in awe how I could run 300 different data sets overnight when it took him an hour to run 4 or 5 different sets and he had to be there the whole time.
This is great that students are having the chance to expand their computer skills but the number of high school "graduates" that I see in my general college math classes that can't do 6th grade math (add and subtract negative numbers without a calculator) is shocking.
Granted these are not going to be the same students that are taking Linux classes (I hope) but sometimes I think schools need to focus on the basics.
This is a great program. I wish I would have had the chance to do something besides learn to play Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune in the school's computer lab on an Apple IIe. Vanna, are then any Rs?
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Timothy Zahn has written several books that would be of interest. Some have been republished. A used book store would be a good place to visit.
The college I work for is addressing this issue by developing Alternative Instructional Materials (AIM) for lower level classes that most students need. Example: Composition I
These materials are distributed in electronic format (free of charge) to the students. The students receive a text that is custom made for the class and can be easily updated as needed.
Some students like the concept, some don't. Some of the students feel that they have to print the electronic documents and feel that it is unfair to be expected to print a large amount of material.
Overall, the concept is working great and I think additional texts will be replaced. This doesn't make the publisher book representatives very happy but tough for them.
With sites like turnitin.com and others sites developing broad databases, students are going back to the roots of plagiarism. They go to the library and copy out of a book. Most books are not in the anit-plagiarism databases. An instructor may feel that the document is plagiarized but be unable to find concrete proof. Instructors have to have hard evidence. A student can always come back and sue the universisty since the rest of their life may be affected by this instance.
My favorite way of catching plagiarizers is when I type the first sentence in Google and the site they took the paper from comes up.
Except this is almost statistically impossible. Whenever you put more than 8 words together, the chance of someone else putting together the same 8 words in the same order is highly unlikely. Your paper will be writen in your style or voice. That is unique to every person.
There is study on this somewhere. It was presented in a seminar I attended.
"2. SCO also has produced all non-privileged repsonsive documents requested by IBM. The only exception to such production is files of certain officers and directors for whom SCO could not obtain the requested materials during the holidays with sufficient time to review the documents."
I didn't realize that the deadline was optional.
Judge: Have you produced all of the required information?
Lawyer: Dude, it was Christmas. We will get you that info when we have time.
There were more good things about the mini-series than bad. Overall I enjoyed the series and found myself wishing it was on next week.
Bottom line, it was better than a lot of crap currently on TV.
I couldn't put this book down and was chomping at the bit for the sequel to come out. Nobody is sacred to Martin. Death and chaos abound, major characters become minor, minor characters become major, and when the book is done you say "well I didn't see that coming".
The history of the world is very rich. "The Hedge Knight" which Martin wrote for "Legends: New Short Novels" published by Tor (Jordan, Goodkind, Feist and Pratchett also had stories published in the work) explains some of the references to historical figures that are made in "A Game of Thrones", "A Storm of Swords" and "A Clash of Kings".
I hope that Martin finishes the series in six books and none of them are fillers. Martin definitely sets the bar high for heroic fantasy writers.
A backdoor allows you to make changes and tweaks after the application (or site) goes live but they just aren't worth it. Especially if it ever dawns on the customer that you have made changes (such as a bug fix) without consulting them. If you need to change the software then you need to consult the customer. Period.
If the customer ever figures out that there is a back door or if it is abused by a third party, they will never hire you or your company again.
My advisor was the same way. He was bound and determined to use these ancient FORTRAN programs. I ended using Perl to generate data files and run batch jobs with the Fortran programs. He was in awe how I could run 300 different data sets overnight when it took him an hour to run 4 or 5 different sets and he had to be there the whole time.
What type of fiber modelling are you doing?
This is great that students are having the chance to expand their computer skills but the number of high school "graduates" that I see in my general college math classes that can't do 6th grade math (add and subtract negative numbers without a calculator) is shocking.
Granted these are not going to be the same students that are taking Linux classes (I hope) but sometimes I think schools need to focus on the basics.
This is a great program. I wish I would have had the chance to do something besides learn to play Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune in the school's computer lab on an Apple IIe. Vanna, are then any Rs?
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