Good morning everyone -
I don't know about you all - maybe you're used to this, maybe you're
cynical, maybe you've given up.... but I find all these posts rather
disturbing to read. I don't teach at a colleague or university so don't
have first-hand experience. Thus forgive if this is a totally dumb
question, but can someone please offer some hunches as to the reasons
for why such services exist?
Are professors placing too many demands on students (either or both in
quantity or quality)? Are students too dumb or ill-educated so that, by
the time they get to college they can't perform what is asked of them?
Is there a lack of mentoring, lack of writing assistance (because
professors have papers to publish or perish, and advisory staff got
cut)? Is there too much parental pressure to be a straight A student? Is
it the pressure to get into grad school and super-duper jobs? Is it
vanity? Is it just another money-making ploy by the good old capitalists
who will find just about any niche to exploit? Are morals that far out
the window and maybe more so than before? And is anyone going to get on
the barricades and resist this baffling trend of anti-intellectualism?
(if I go on for a bit, it will soon be a GEP-relevant topic....)
Sorry, this just got me all rallied up, and I am not even at the bottom
of the first cup of caffeine....
Susi
Peter Jacques wrote:
Also, in this political economy of cheating, Turnitin.com offers a separate service
("writecheck") specifically and only for students who can see, for a fee, if
their paper indicates plagiarism compared to the turnitin database without adding it to
the turnitin database. At UCF, thesis chairs are now mandated to submit all theses and
dissertations to turnitincom.
Peter J. Jacques, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
University of Central Florida
P.O. Box 161356
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816-1356
Phone: (407) 823-2608
Fax: (407) 823-0051
http://ucf.academia.edu/PeterJacques
"Ken Conca" <[email protected]> 1/7/2009 10:28 AM >>>
Be sure to read the section on plagiarism in the second link, in which the
customer buying a dissertation is assured that the document will be an
original, unplagiarized work, pre-screened with plagiarism-detecting software!
Honor among thieves, indeed....Ken Conca
"Ronald Mitchell" <[email protected]> 1/6/2009 4:39 PM >>>
Colleagues,
As many of us advise doctoral and masters students, I thought I would send
on a site I came across while googling for "global warming dissertations":
http://www.phd-dissertations.com/
and
http://www.phd-dissertations.com/topic/global_warming_dissertation_thesis.ht
ml
Perhaps others were aware of this sort of service, but I was not. I leave
it to others to determine what lessons to derive from the existence of this
site.
Best,
Ron
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