"When he assigned a paper on 20th century theater, Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Michael Chemers was surprised at what a student submitted."
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Internet creates opportunities to cheat
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"When he assigned a paper on 20th century theater, Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Michael Chemers was surprised at what a student submitted."
"When he assigned a paper on 20th century theater, Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Michael Chemers was surprised at what a student submitted."
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Wow, I never even knew it was possible to buy papers off of the internet. I feel like turnitin.com is useful however I agree that most teachers can tell when a student hasn't come up with the ideas himself or hasn't actually written the paper. Teachers know the abilities of most of their students so it should be pretty easy for them to tell when they are not the student's own. It's also really funny that Dr. Chemers dad's student handed in a paper that plagiarized a segment of a paper the teacher had actually written. This just shows that this student was either really stupid or in a huge rush, probably both.
I don't know why someone would be stupid enough to cheat on anything that could get them expelled from school. Doing this would ruin your life and would not allow you to pursue your dreams and ambitions. There are reasons for writing papers and that is for you to learn and allow yourself to grow as a writer and a scholar, not someone else's work.
Theres a line between integrity and laziness that seems to attract students in all the wrong ways. Like any fad, people seem to be attracted to the easiest of possibilities, we cant argue this, we just have to accpet that it's human nature. The problem is that students somehow do things like this without any remourse or restraint for their actions. We need to get back in the swing of things.
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