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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
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
How Much Plagiarism Is Plagiarism?
Clearly, one direct quote of 10 words that the student accidently fails to put in quotation marks will not lead to a claim of plagiarism. But we are reluctant to put a percentage or definite figure down for what would constitute a claim. As an example, recently, a student submitted work with: o A 4,000 word appendix made up of copied material most of which she did not attribute to any source o A section of 1,000 words which was at least 50% 'paraphrased' from a report. The
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