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"NY Times" featured Dyson's psychology professor Terence Hines' piece "Cheating Goes Global as U.S. Students Outsource College Papers”
"The New York Times" featured Dyson's psychology professor Terence Hines' piece "Cheating Goes Global as U.S. Students Outsource College Papers”
The purchase of term papers in college is a problem. My own solution is to require that students turn in a significant first draft of their paper at least six weeks before the final version is due.
I read and edit the drafts for content as well as for English usage and then return them. At the end of the term each student must turn in a final version of the paper as well as the edited first draft. This system has several benefits.
It makes it very difficult (but probably not impossible) to turn in a purchased or otherwise plagiarized paper. Each student gets detailed individual comments on his or her paper that are ideally used to improve the final version.
The students get a feeling for how the peer-review process works in academic journal publishing.
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