After 10 years hosted on my office computer, the Plagiarism Resource Site now has a new home and new look. It has moved to BloomfieldMedia.com, where it is now build with WordPress. The days of hand-coded web sites are clearly over and I’m happy to let such a sophisticated software package handle the presentation of [...]
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Writing is hard work and all the marvels of modern technology haven’t made it any easier. Vast resources now lie just keystrokes away, but the basic art of assembling one’s thoughts into engaging prose is little changed since the days of paper and pencil. While mindless information doubles every three years, thoughtful writing still proceeds [...] It is easy for students to misunderstand the purpose of assigned work. Since they don’t have the instructor’s knowledge or perspective on the material, they generally can’t tell where things are headed or why a particular assignment will get them there. If the instructor doesn’t make his goals for each assignment clear from the start, [...] People often claim that instructors who give inflated grades do so to obtain higher evaluations from their students, but I don’t buy that argument. Sure, the students will happily accept the inflated grades, but they still won’t respect bad instruction and will mostly say so on their end-of-semester course evaluations. The anticipated quid pro quo [...] I think that students cheat primarily because our society rewards appearances more than realities. All of the emphasis is on how you look, not on who you really are. We reward people for their degrees and good credentials so much more than we reward them for becoming educated, that it’s no wonder students take shortcuts. [...] |
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