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Re: [xmca] FW: The Shadow Scholar - He writes your students' papers.
I don't want to take a position on this topic, but was curious about what
seems a contradiction between issues of "control and trust" in a manner
similar to Engstrom's article on the use of technology in middle schools and
putting computers in the hallway. I wonder if the concepts "control" and
"trust" are primary or basic constructs when discussing institutional
structures or containers. I was wondering when reading Engstrom's article
if the terms control and trust were explanatory terms within 2nd person
actor narratives or if Engstrom abstracted these terms as explanatory 3rd
person narratives of what he observed in the middle school environment. Do
others see a contradiction or tension in the discussion of plagarism or is
it a clear case of civic virtue?
Larry
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Rod Parker-Rees <
R.Parker-Rees@plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:
> And I can also confirm that this extends to submissions to peer reviewed
> journals, too. I have had the experience of receiving a paper which was
> noticeably more lucid than the email which accompanied it, a quick bit of
> googling revealed that the paper was the work of a student at a UK
> university where the submitter had been working as a visiting academic.
>
> Rod
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of Robert Lake
> Sent: 10 January 2011 01:20
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] FW: The Shadow Scholar - He writes your students'
> papers.
>
> I can verify that from my experience last semester.
>
> With one student I suspected because of an obvious misuse of future tense
> in
> a paper, Google worked,,,,,, Turnitin missed it.
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nancy Mack <nancy.mack@wright.edu> wrote:
>
> > There are significant problems with commercial plagiarism checkers.
> > There are studies that indicate that a simple google search for a unique
> > phrase is more accurate and is free.
> > See this study
> > http://wac.colostate.edu/journal/vol20/gillis.pdf
> >
> > The National Council of Teachers of English website has several better
> > resources for issues of plagiarism. Here is just one resource:
> > http://www.ncte.org/magazine/archives/122871/
> >
> > Turnitin is very expensive. School districts are being pressured to buy
> > this service. Some teachers are using these policing mechanisms rather
> than
> > teaching students effective ways to use direct citation. Moreover,
> citation
> > practices do vary from discipline to discipline.
> >
> > Nancy
> >
> > Nancy Mack
> >
> > Professor of English
> > Wright State University
> >
> > http://www.wright.edu/~nancy.mack
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David Cross <d.cross@tcu.edu>
> > Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011 6:22 pm
> > Subject: Re: [xmca] FW: The Shadow Scholar - He writes your students'
> > papers.
> > To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> >
> > > Turnitin is used at TCU ... it works well for plagiarism, but
> > > wouldn't
> > > have caught The Shadow Scholar.
> > >
> > > http://turnitin.com/static/index.php
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > David Cross
> > > d.cross@tcu.edu
> > > www.davidcross.us
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 9, 2011, at 4:11 PM, David H Kirshner wrote:
> > >
> > > > Karen,
> > > > I'd not heard of anti-plagiarism services.
> > > > What a great idea. Their use should be routine--a high-tech
> > > solution
> > > > to
> > > > a high-tech problem.
> > > > To tell you the truth, I don't know how they would be able to detect
> > > > frauds like the Shadow Scholar, in that the papers are one-of-
> > > a-kind,
> > > > not recycled. Yet some organized effort to combat this really
> > > is in
> > > > order. This is something that a union of university
> > > professors, or
> > > > some
> > > > other pan-university organization should undertake.
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-
> > > bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]> On Behalf Of Karen Heckert
> > > > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 4:03 PM
> > > > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> > > > Subject: Re: [xmca] FW: The Shadow Scholar - He writes your
> > > students'> papers.
> > > >
> > > > This is not amusing. This is horrifying. (You can tell how old
> > > I am.)
> > > >
> > > > I recently finished an MS in I/O Psychology, and one professor
> > > made us
> > > > submit
> > > > everything we handed in to an online anti-plagiarism service.
> > > > Personally, I
> > > > thought she was nuts and certifiably paranoid. Now I understand.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > About fifteen years ago I spent some time in a Ph.D program
> > > and
> > > > teaching
> > > >
> > > > undergrads. One day I received two exactly identical papers
> > > from two
> > > > different
> > > > students. Some astute questioning uncovered the fact that the best
> > > > student in
> > > > the class (Chinese) and several American students were pooling their
> > > > resources
> > > > to write the research papers. Since their exams were all
> > > written in
> > > > class, this
> > > > didn't bother me too much. I just stipulated that each student
> > > had to
> > > > write up
> > > > the work in their very own words for submission. But there
> > > wasn't a
> > > > question (I
> > > > think) of anybody getting paid - it was just a case of uniting
> > > in the
> > > > face of a
> > > > common enemy (the gradebook). Beng a student myself, I
> > > understood only
> > > > too well.
> > > > Besides, I figured, most research these days is done by teams,
> > > and
> > > > this
> > > > was a
> > > > little practical experience.
> > > >
> > > > Another cautionary tale: One of my students who had been
> > > turning in
> > > > acceptable
> > > > papers all semester turned in one that read very much like
> > > > schizophrenese
> > > > word-salad. I called her into conference and asked her point
> > > blank,
> > > > "Are
> > > > you
> > > > dyslexic?" She said that she was, but that the student
> > > center's
> > > > writing
> > > > lab had
> > > > been helping her write her papers. This time she simply hadn't
> > > had
> > > > time
> > > > to take
> > > > her paper to them.
> > > >
> > > > Having just survived another bout of our "educational" system,
> > > I
> > > > have to
> > > > agree
> > > > with many of the anonymous writer's points about college, if
> > > not with
> > > > his/her
> > > > ethics. I find this sort of thing a far more serious symptom
> > > of "moral
> > > > decay"
> > > > than abortion or gay marriage. We in the US are supposed to be a
> > > > meritocracy and
> > > > those things which undermine that threaten our existence in
> > > more
> > > > crucial
> > > > ways.
> > > > The "system" is failing the students and in the long run
> > > failing us
> > > > all.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: David H Kirshner <dkirsh@lsu.edu>
> > > > To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > > > Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 3:17:56 PM
> > > > Subject: [xmca] FW: The Shadow Scholar - He writes your students'
> > > > papers.
> > > >
> > > > Not a propos of anything, this is both amusing and disturbing.
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ****************************
> > > >
> > > >> From the Chronicle Review [A Weekly Magazine of
> > > Ideas/Chronicle of
> > > > Higher Education], Friday, November 19, 2010, pp. B6-B9. See
> > > > http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/
> > > >
> > > > ****************************
> > > >
> > > > The Shadow Scholar
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The man who writes your students' papers tells his story
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > By Ed Dante
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> > > >
> > > >
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