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Students, don’t turn to essay mills, just learn to write a better paper.
Across Canada and around the world, thousands of students are paying cash for good grades - in tests, essays and even PhD theses. On Oct. 18, 2017, universities globally are fighting back.
Changes to student assessment can help to reduce the potential for academic misconduct.
It doesn’t matter how assessments are given to students, as students can still find a way to cheat.
Plagiarism in public life is an ugly slight upon the intelligence and the trust of an audience.
More handwritten tasks could force students to avoid the dreaded cut and paste.
Managing the newest form of academic deceit will require hard work from established academia and a renewed commitment to integrity from university communities.
Academics’ own propensity for plagiarism may be contributing to high levels of student plagiarism.
For every student who intentionally steals others’ work and passes it off as her own, there are ten who don’t yet know how to build academic knowledge. They need our help, not condemnation.
The way schools and universities teach and test has to keep up with the way young people are processing information.
We could be fooled into thinking pay-for plagiarism is a modern, high-tech invention. However, the internet merely supports the logistics.
Surveys show that 95% of high school students and 70% of college students are involved in some form of cheating.
While Four Corners shed some much-needed light on long-standing problems in higher education, these problems aren’t reserved for international students.
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Trying to control and prevent plagiarism is a problem for all universities, and nearly all universities these days use some kind of technology to combat it. But in a recent article on The Conversation…
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