Uni Students Caught Out Cheating - So what else is new?
Sydney: Figures have been released today which suggest that universities are facing an explosion of plagiarism and cheating in exams.
It is estimated almost 3500 students have been caught cheating across Sydney's 8 major campuses since 2001.
Wollongong has found that its law students were among the most likely to commit plagiarism in essays and assignments, "Lets face facts," the Dean of Law said, "Law is about getting around standard axioms such as rights, we teach our students to challenge everything. I'm surprised all they've done is cheated."
The Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University Steven Schwarz had a far more imposing responce, "We cannot accept this kind of behaviour. To blatently copy anothers work without reference is academic theft. Our students are meant to be illumini in the community, not petty thiefs."
The Vice-Chancellor of Sydney Uni Gavin Brown reflected these sentiments strongly, "We cannot accept this kind of behaviour. To blatently copy anothers work without reference is academic theft. Our students are meant to be illumini in the community, not petty thiefs."
John Howard has been briefed on the outbreak of plagairism but seems unfussed. "If you have a winning formula you should steal it, just look at my foreign policy."
Australia is just waiting for Labor to take control of both houses for the prophesy to come full circle.
It is estimated almost 3500 students have been caught cheating across Sydney's 8 major campuses since 2001.
Wollongong has found that its law students were among the most likely to commit plagiarism in essays and assignments, "Lets face facts," the Dean of Law said, "Law is about getting around standard axioms such as rights, we teach our students to challenge everything. I'm surprised all they've done is cheated."
The Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University Steven Schwarz had a far more imposing responce, "We cannot accept this kind of behaviour. To blatently copy anothers work without reference is academic theft. Our students are meant to be illumini in the community, not petty thiefs."
The Vice-Chancellor of Sydney Uni Gavin Brown reflected these sentiments strongly, "We cannot accept this kind of behaviour. To blatently copy anothers work without reference is academic theft. Our students are meant to be illumini in the community, not petty thiefs."
John Howard has been briefed on the outbreak of plagairism but seems unfussed. "If you have a winning formula you should steal it, just look at my foreign policy."
Australia is just waiting for Labor to take control of both houses for the prophesy to come full circle.
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Very funny post.
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Not quite plagiarism.... Assume u used the same quote for two different people on purpose?
Very funny post.
I dig it.
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Yeah the figures are true, as for how many students would go through in a year, thats anyone's guess.
I had a uni degree that was impossible to plagiarise, film production. Hard to copy a film perfectly shot for shot.
Can I just bring up a controversial example of cheating at my old uni - this may sound a bit racist, but I can't help the facts.
In a particular course, I think it was either Media Law or Introduction to Marketing, we had a group of three Asian Students. As part of assessement, we had to present a 15 minute oral presentation in front of other classs members about somethnig which I vaguely remember now.
Now, the three students got up and presented their presentation, in what can only be described as basic english. In their defence, what they were saying did make sense, and did last for the 15 minutes.
But, compared to the other presentations, it was one of the more primitive and basic orals to be presented, yet they still managed to achieve a distinction for their efforts. And I did also read their written component which was submitted, and lets just say that the written component sounded extremely advanced compared to their verbal presentation.
I know it sounds like I am picking on a minority, but to me it seems a bit sus, that their two pieces of work submitted could differ in content so greatly, yet still receive a decent grade (I know what grade they got as it was posted on a noticeboard)
Am I being prejudiced?
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The catch with it all is that unless you are stupid, plagiarism is very hard to detect. I know for me I was the opposite, verbal component I'd blitz, written was the everest for me.
So it's tough to say.
I remember my old science headmaster at highschool, being the sage he was he dealt out this pearler before our Year 10 major exams,
"Remember if you copy only one source, that's plagiarism.
Copy more than one source, that's research."
He had a point
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I love the subtleties of your *errghm, cough, chuckle* "report"
Very well researched....*lol*
Lilla...
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Truth be told though the first paragraph or two of each story is normally straight up fact.
Its after that that I have fun embelishing, perhaps I should introduce a colour coding scheme for those who want to discren the genuine from my imagination
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I've beein doing Japanese for 6 years, and I know some people can rip out a perfect Japanese essay, yet have the worst Godawful speech, depending on what particular strengths they have.
Personally, I pwn at speaking, and my essays suck.
so, where is the line drawn? but i guess the dean is talking about assignments and essays so that might be a different kettle of fish.
sorry, this post didn't make any sense because it's the summer holidays and my brain is on hiatus.