My writing assignments are like Gary's and I haven't had trouble
with plagiarism. My assignments are research reports that are
built from multiple drafts or short very-specific assignments
such as analysis of a problem or response to a question. I would
rather see 2 pages of organized and edited material than 15 pages
of glop.
On the other hand, I know faculty who do assign 10-page to
15-page papers and they have a continuing problem with plagiarism.
There is an instructor/paper-length confound but I am not going
to start assigning long papers to see if I get the problem :-)
Ken
Gerald Peterson wrote:
Interesting stuff. I wonder if people on tips have many of
these kinds of problems? I have paper requirements that are
not easily the kinds of things one can purchase: Research
reports that the students conduct in research classes with a
number of drafts, specific applications of social psych to
specific local situations, and narrow reviews of psych
research journals. All of these can pose problems regarding
some plagiarism, but not the kind of things that essay mills
can easily handle. Maybe we should ask, what kinds of papers
are more appropriate? Does anyone really require the
old-fashioned global, general term paper these days? Just
wonderin' Gary
Gerald L. (Gary) Peterson, Ph.D. Professor, Psychology Saginaw
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<sbl...@ubishops.ca> 3/19/2009 9:39 pm >>>
On 19 Mar 2009 at 13:39, roig-rear...@comcast.net wrote:
the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education has
published an article titled: "Cheating Goes Global as Essay
Mills Multiply" that attempts to provide an in-depth look at
how these operations work, who owns them, etc
The article provides an interesting view from the outside. For
an interesting view from the inside, try:
First Person The Term Paper Artist The lucrative industry
behind higher ed's failings. By Nick Mamatas The Smart Set
October 10, 2008
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article10100801.aspx
Another, much older but still revealing description from the
inside is this one, unfortunately not available on the web:
This pen for hire: On grinding out papers for college students
by "Abigail Witherspoon" [pseudonym], Harper's Magazine,
June, 1995, p. 49--57
Stephen
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