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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
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