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04.09.2007: Cheaters Will Never Prosper
University Wire September 4, 2007 Tuesday Cheaters will never prosper By Janice Kopaunik, Daily Utah Chronicle; SOURCE: U. Utah COLUMN 485 words DATELINE: SALT LAKE CITY During the past few semesters, a growing number of university professors have started using digital assessment tools to quell plagiarism. With the help of intensive cross referencing applications such as TurnItIn.com, teachers and administrators hope to teach good scholarship and promote academic honesty. Ac
16.06.2007: Cracking Down On Cheaters; Universities Must Redouble Efforts
The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario) June 16, 2007 Saturday Final Edition Cracking down on cheaters; Universities must redouble efforts to teach students the importance of academic integrity KEN COATES, FOR THE RECORD INSIGHT; Pg. A17 1268 words During the weekend of the April examination period, an anonymous email arrived. The message described the theft of exam questions, which a student was attempting to sell to his classmates. The writer (who later identified himself
Do Ghostwriters Help Students Cheat?
It's disappointing to read Caron Dann's article for the Times Higher Education supplement (below) condemning writers who ghostwrite for essay sites. There are many ways of cheating on your coursework. Copying from books, journals, and from the internet is one of the most prolific ways - more prolific than using essay writing websites. By Caron's reasoning, we should all stop writing books and journals and stop creating internet sites. You see the problem with this line of reasoning is, i
Essay Cheats Face Deterrent
Aberdeen Press and Journal SECTION: News; Education; Colleges/Univs; Pg. 12 LENGTH: 197 words An Academic at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, is further developing computer software to combat essay cheats. James Christie hopes improvements to SEAR, which analyses word-processed work for similar content and style, could lead to it being marketed as a service to universities across the UK. The programme analyses parameters from a small sample of essays such as vocabulary, sentence
Facing Up To Internet Cheats
THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) BYLINE: By Graeme Whitfield, The Journal SECTION: EDUCATION SCHOOLS, Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1019 words After private schools called for GCSE coursework to be scrapped to deter internet cheats, education correspondent Graeme we look at how widespread plagiarism has become in the classroom. ********** From passing notes in class to copying the clever kid's homework, cheating in schools is nothing new. Teachers have been trying to stop children cheating for almo
Is Cheating.....
A) NEVER ACCEPTABLE B) SOMETIMES NECESSARY C) A GREAT BRITISH ART FORM We all have to feel rather sorry for Oxford chemistry graduate Sam Kay. First, he missed out on funding for the postgraduate work he wanted to do. Then, as a direct result of this initial misfortune, his winning team has been disqualified from University Challenge. Now, his shame is bruited on the nation's front pages, accompanied ‹ on the grounds that femaleness trumps relevance ‹ by photographs of his team-mate Gai
Media Star Under Scrutiny Over Radio Nz Broadcasts
Noelle McCarthy's opinions are everywhere, but are they all hers? Kim Knight reports. RADIO NEW Zealand is reviewing broadcasts by presenter and commentator Noelle McCarthy, after concerns were raised about alleged unattributed use of other journalists' work. Media experts have called the similarity between three McCarthy essays and articles from overseas newspapers "compelling" and "disconcerting". The similarities were discovered by the Sunday Star-Times, when it Googled transcripts