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Glenn said:
Plagiarism, to me, is submitting work as your own work without attributing sources. While the guy may not be the actual one plagiarizing, he is participating in it.

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What he did was not a plagiarism.

What the student did is breaking the Honor Code.... by cheating.
 
naisho said:
He has attributed his sources in his papers... lol. No way he can get past thesis and postgraduate, lab reports without sources.. no way jose.

I've written toward a master's degree in cognitive psychology, a Ph.D. in sociology, and a handful of postgraduate credits in international diplomacy. I've worked on bachelor's degrees in hospitality, business administration, and accounting. I've written for courses in history, cinema, labor relations, pharmacology, theology, sports management, maritime security, airline services, sustainability, municipal budgeting, marketing, philosophy, ethics, Eastern religion, postmodern architecture, anthropology, literature, and public administration. I've attended three dozen online universities. I've completed 12 graduate theses of 50 pages or more. All for someone else.

After I've gathered my sources, I pull out usable quotes, cite them, and distribute them among the sections of the assignment. Over the years, I've refined ways of stretching papers. I can write a four-word sentence in 40 words. Just give me one phrase of quotable text, and I'll produce two pages of ponderous explanation. I can say in 10 pages what most normal people could say in a paragraph.
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He is participating in it, which doesn't leave him smelling like a rose. While he is not the student doing the bad deeds, he is not innocent of any wrongdoing.

Cocaine is illegal, so don't you think cocaine dealers are doing something illegal?
 
OK, so he is not technically the one who is plagiarizing, but he is enabling others to do so. That makes him an accessory to dishonesty. He knows what they are doing with his work.
 
Glenn said:
He is participating in it, which doesn't leave him smelling like a rose. While he is not the student doing the bad deeds, he is not innocent of any wrongdoing.
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he never said this was "rosey". He exposed it.

Glenn said:
Cocaine is illegal, so don't you think cocaine dealers are doing something illegal?
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Cocaine is legal in some countries. Your kind of thinking is the reason why Drug War continues to fail.
 
Glenn said:
OK, so he is not technically the one who is plagiarizing, but he is enabling others to do so. That makes him an accessory to dishonesty. He knows what they are doing with his work.
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Ghost Writer. know it? Many famous figures hire a ghost writer to write "memoirs" for them... including Sarah Palin.

There's no mention of ghost writer's name on book or anything at all... hence "ghost". They get paid to do it and that's all they care about.
 
Jiro said:
Ghost Writer. know it? Many famous figures hire a ghost writer to write "memoirs" for them... including Sarah Palin.

There's no mention of ghost writer's name on book or anything at all... hence "ghost". They get paid to do it and that's all they care about.
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You're not supposed to use ghost writers for academic papers. Apples and oranges.
 
Glenn said:
You're not supposed to use ghost writers for academic papers. Apples and oranges.
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the students are not supposed to use any type of service as well nor cheat.
 
Glenn said:
Was that what he was doing? "Exposing" it? Sounded a lot more like he was gloating.
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you might want to read it again. I understand that it's a very long article and just about everybody has A.D.D. or similar.

Through a literary agent, he approached The Chronicle wanting to tell the story of how he makes a living writing papers for a custom-essay company and to describe the extent of student cheating he has observed.
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With respect to America's nurses, fear not. Our lives are in capable hands*—just hands that can't write a lick. Nursing students account for one of my company's biggest customer bases. I've written case-management plans, reports on nursing ethics, and essays on why nurse practitioners are lighting the way to the future of medicine. I've even written pharmaceutical-treatment courses, for patients who I hope were hypothetical.
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Nearly a decade later, students, not publishers, still come from everywhere to find me.

I work hard for a living. I'm nice to people. But I understand that in simple terms, I'm the bad guy. I see where I'm vulnerable to ethical scrutiny.

But pointing the finger at me is too easy. Why does my business thrive? Why do so many students prefer to cheat rather than do their own work?

Say what you want about me, but I am not the reason your students cheat.
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He's merely gloating on how good he is because no cheating software has been able to red-flag his paper and how satisfied his customers are. But you're missing the big picture. Look at who he writes for. Look at what's the big problem there.
 
I use the same approach when typing papers.

That's why typing papers became so easy for me in school. I would skim through a book and pick a sentence that looked good. From there, I would create a paragraph from that one sentence. The rest is history. :)
 
TheWriteAlex said:
The reason for why stuff like this has come about definitely lies in the American education system. Higher education has just become a business at most universities. Students are customers purchasing a product, a degree. It doesn't matter how they get that product, just as long as they get it.

One of the biggest reasons that I see is the way many college classes are set up as auditorium lectures with hundreds upon hundreds of students. The only way to assess student learning in such situations is to give exams and assign papers to be read by a team of graduate TAs (often socially stunted and resentful of the undergrad students who are having much more fun than they ever did as undergrads). There are no close working relationships between student and instructor, and thus, no oversight. The students are not motivated to do good work and increase their knowledge and intellectual capacity, but just to pass the class with a good grade at any cost.

With my class, I only have 20 students. I know each and every one of their names by the end of the second week. I assign daily quick writing activities in order to get a feeling for their writing style and intellectual capabilities. And through mandatory 1-on-1 conferencing, I get to know them a little better than just as a statistic. What happens is that I develop a close working relationship with each of them and can give them individualized instruction. I like to think that they are more inspired to write and work hard because of this, but if anything, it also allows me to recognize when something is out of the ordinary with their writing.

American universities need to begin moving back towards smaller class size and taking only the brightest and most motivated students. College isn't for everybody.
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I need a Facebook "Like" Button for this! :)
 
the underworld (actually blackmarket or just plainly greedy scholars) just recognised another lucrative market, cheating students...
 
its the "new blackmarket"... all because it is easier to find source to help cheat .. to cover tracks.. but then there is "turnitin" websites...
 
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