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RIP, Vardria.

Vardria

LGBT Equality wrote:That was especially true when I was teaching at an open enrollment college. Some of the papers I got were *gag*!

Let's say for the sake of argument that you received 100 papers to grade by Monday. Piece of cake right? WRONG. If the instructor spends a basic 6 minutes per paper (that's going REALLY FAST), that's 10/hour or 10 hours grading. But there's always at least one that takes MUCH more time. Maybe you recognize the reference, or maybe it's simply too good to have come from a freshman from a deprived background--so you know he's cheating. Sometimes it's as simple as typing an especially erudite sentence into Google and seeing what you come up with. There are also cheating sites that store old term papers that will sell them to you. There are also special academic search engines that specialize in ferreting out plagiarism.

I've over the years had people plagiarise the TEXTBOOK from the section we were reading. Did they really think I didn't read my own textbook???

I had one case of a really bright girl in my Intro class. As bright as she was, I knew she hadn't written a PhD-level essay. So after a little poking and prodding on the internet, I found the source used. It was EGREGIOUS, with only a few words changed here and there over a space of about two whole pages. So I printed off the original source, marked the lifted lines in yellow highlighter, and waited until class was over to talk to the student. I asked her if she had anything to tell me about the paper (this is a huge red flag, people--if a professor says it to you, you know you're going down!) She at first insisted she hadn't plagiarized (which, as it turned out, was true). With a little more probing, she confessed that she'd paid another student $50 to write the term paper for her and THAT student had plagiarized the paper. There is no honour among thieves. The stealing was so profound I have to wonder if the other student really wanted this student to get caught...? I hated having to fail one of the brightest students in my class.

Plagiarism pisses me off. There was this kid in my class last year who got caught. The teacher wasn't as forgiving as you and called him out in front of the whole class. I'll be honest in saying my writing sucks, mostly because i don't put too much thought into it, but when i do try i do pretty decent. My AP english teacher made us look at 5 papers and grade them, it was painful. The thing was that they were papers from other AP students. I feel bad for professors and teachers, especially the standard and honors level teachers, grading those must be painful, especially having to grade easy on them. High school needs to be harder. It's supposed to prepare you for college, but the student has to go out of their way to do that. If the student were to not want to go to college to begin with and take those easy standard classes, then after high school, go take college classes, they are probably going to struggle because they didn't even learn those basic writing skills, and they're gonna suffer because high school didn't do what it needed to do. That's just what i think though, mostly because my older brother is struggling with these problems. lol, he's actually moving back in with us because he just lost everything... for the 3rd time... and he's only 24... He's lost and confused sadly. He doesn't know what he wants to do.

Discoveria, Bearnation, and Snoopy and wood stock

Snoopy and wood stock

So can I get anybody a drink? Sorry. The bar has been closed for a while. I've got a little caught up in RL.

Sushami

Welcome to Gay, Orsetto.

Social promotion is still alive and well in the USA. My HS was notoriously rigorous; at graduation, those students who'd flunked out were give "certificates of attendance" instead of diplomas, but only they and their families knew. Other high schools graduate people who are functionally illiterate. Some colleges practice open enrollment and will accept anyone who can afford to attend. My last teaching job was at such an institution. Despite the lower standards, grades at that junior college (or "technical college" as we say in SC) transferred to the research university across town, credit hour for credit hour. I, unlike most of my colleagues, taught my courses with same rigour as I had at the research university. This, for the most part, did not endear me to the students. The chair of the Humanities Department, my boss, accused me of "teaching at the graduate school level," simply because I expected my students to've read their assignments before they came to class. Unbelievable. That was expected of me in HS.

In GRADUATE SCHOOL AT YALE, I had a classmate who made me cringe the few times he ever opened his mouth, as he had obviously benefited from social promotion, both in HS AND AT A RESEARCH UNIVERSITY. Unf'ing believable. I don't recall whether or not he graduated from Yale (it's been 27 years now since then). There's a growing sense of entitlement among students that they have a right to a college degree, that they are simply consumers purchasing services from the schools and professors they happen to patronize. I obviously do not share that opinion. I flunked many a student, but I'm reasonably sure none of them were doing the assignments or paying attention in class. For students with college-level intelligence, I made it quite easy to pass with a C with a modest amount of work done for my courses. Those who failed either:
(1) lacked the preparation to be in college, i.e., had been socially promoted; and/or
(2) lacked the raw intelligence to do college-level work; and/or
(3) failed to make a good-faith effort to succeed in my class.

I could rant on, but I won't. :)

Sushami

Thank you Bearnation (I probably did that wrong. I'm terrible with those types of things.

So far it seems lovely and lively here. I won't jump in this conversation mid-discussion as I have no background, but I seem to be in agreement with BearNation on this subject so far.

Sushami

No...I do the code type thing right, for the first time in ever, but I forget an end parenthesis. Great first impression. (He said hoping his self-deprecating humor would be endearing.)

Discoveria and Sushami

Snoopy and wood stock

Orsetto wrote:Thank you Bearnation (I probably did that wrong. I'm terrible with those types of things.

So far it seems lovely and lively here. I won't jump in this conversation mid-discussion as I have no background, but I seem to be in agreement with BearNation on this subject so far.

This place is great. Stick around! Do you want a drink?

Sushami

Have you guys taken the Google Doodle Earth Day quiz?

I'm a pangolin! The practical sort, you know just when to curl up into a ball to thwart predators.

Incindus pyraxis wrote:Is anyone else running through the Brasilistan series of issues?

I did, I used economic sanctions on them and them took over without combat, then annexed them. The nuke thing seemed kind of too much for me.

Sushami wrote:Have you guys taken the Google Doodle Earth Day quiz?

I'm a pangolin! The practical sort, you know just when to curl up into a ball to thwart predators.

took it.
You're a giant squid! You can achieve anything to which you put your mind and/or your massive tentacles.

Sushami

I was a manakin or something.

Sushami

Snoopy and wood stock

I'm a cuttlefish.

Sushami

Orsetto wrote:No...I do the code type thing right, for the first time in ever, but I forget an end parenthesis. Great first impression. (He said hoping his self-deprecating humor would be endearing.)

Don't sweat it--most of us make mistakes from time to time, except for Otis-T. ;)

Manufacturing

top 100: Haldana
top 1000: Nicorian

bottom 100: Gracieland
bottom 1000: Matt, BN, K-B, Fenn, Moose, Grapefruit, Senshu

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

RIP, Sfmnl.

LGBT Equality wrote:Don't sweat it--most of us make mistakes from time to time, except for Otis-T. ;)

Yes, i'm a perfect and superior being... at least i wish i was...

Lacryma christi

I'm bored. What can I do about it?

Sushami

Snoopy and wood stock

Run a mile
Walk your dog
Watch a movie
Dance
Write a novel
Write a poem
Draw a picture
Read a novel
Jump up and down
Grab something to drink
Go pet a pig
Adopt a chinchilla
Hang out with friends
Go for a swim
Turn into a fox and jump over some lazy dogs.

I hope these help.

LGBT Equality and Sushami

How do u sanction a country and how do you build an embassy

Lacryma christi wrote:I'm bored. What can I do about it?

Solve the great questions of humanity?

E.g. What is the meaning of life? Do we have free will? What is 'good'? What makes us human? How does consciousness work? What happens after we die? How should society be organised?

That should keep you busy for at least a couple of years. ;)

Snoopy and wood stock and Sushami

Lacryma christi wrote:I'm bored. What can I do about it?

Write a story and eat jalapeņos

Discoveria and Snoopy and wood stock

any body in to long distance relation ships

Panzerlander wrote:any body in to long distance relation ships

My previous one was, but didn't work out.

Discoveria wrote:My previous one was, but didn't work out.

they never do... or at least mine didn't.

Discoveria wrote:Solve the great questions of humanity?

E.g. What is the meaning of life? Do we have free will? What is 'good'? What makes us human? How does consciousness work? What happens after we die? How should society be organised?

That should keep you busy for at least a couple of years. ;)

42.

If we don't, we should work on liberating Will.

Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women. Wait, that's what's best. I'm not sure what's good.

Humor.

I find being unconscious actually makes work much better or at least it makes the time pass more swiftly. .

After we die, we join the Skeleton Army.

Society should be organized alphabetically.

Discoveria, Snoopy and wood stock, Sushami, and Ai que delicia

Snoopy and wood stock

Sushami wrote:Write a story and eat jalapeņos

Mmmmmm. Jalapeņos! Aw :( Now I'm hungry!

Sushami

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