Re: Are you REALLY a stressed out student?

[dmoorman@csn.net (David Moorman)]

Nathaniel Tagg (ntagg@uoguelph.ca) wrote:
: David Salvador Flores (dsf3g@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
: : In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960403221602.8715D-100000@sunspot>,
: : >> >THE EVIL HOUSE OF CHEAT!
: : >> >
: : >> >The www site to be, if you are a student, and want to freely download
: : >> >essays written by other students. All essays are with descriptions and
: : >> >the grade which was given. This new concept will expand. The database
: : >> >of titles in all subjects is, every day. 
: : >
: : >You know, I've never been able to understand this.  ANY competent 
: : >instructor/teaacher/professor will instantly recognize when a student 
: : >hasn't written his/her own paper.  Styles don't change overnight.
: : >Students using these pre-written essays, even as a guide, are risking 
: : >academic misconduct which is grounds for expulsion.
: : >
: : >Anything for buck.

: : Here's the best part: If I'm a prof. who suspects a student has
: : turned in a piece of work that's not his own, it should be a 
: : relatively painless process to determine whether or not he's
: : gotten the essay off this archive.

: : -Dave

: 	Essay-writing services and essay archives have been prolific for 
: years all over North America.  Spotting plagurized essays is not 
: trivial.. especially with hundreds of essays to mark.  Since this 
: repository is only one of dozens, there is no way for a prof to stay on 
: top of them all.
: 	This kind of service is not laughable; it is a severe problem, 
: both in terms of equity and education.  Anyone who makes use of it 
: ethically (and morally) reprehensible in my view.
: ---N


: --
: Nathaniel Tagg		Physics grad student		University of Guelph
: 	"The chances of a neutrino actually hitting something as it 
: travels through all this howling emptiness are roughly comparable to that 
: of dropping a ball bearing at random from a cruising 747 and hitting, 
: say, an egg sandwich."		-- Douglas Adams, _Mostly_Harmless_

Actually, I made it a habit to offer my seminary profs  a free steak
dinner if they read a message to that effect in the exact center of 
my term papers.  I never had to give a dinner.

Some graded by weight.  Others by how close to the wall the paper fell
when tossed over the shoulder.  Others seemed to keep track of
what I had said in class -- and that was the basis for grades.

I confess -- for one prof, I never dared a dinner.  He circled 
misspelled words, typos, and grammatical goofs any chance he got.
I'm not sure he READ the paper -- but boy did I ever learn to SPELL!!

Dave