Academic Dishonesty
David Chung at
I heard something troubling on the radio this morning: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/08/710953499/how-students-may-be-cheating-their-way-through-college
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Student: "Technically, I don't think it's cheating. You're paying someone to write an essay. They don't plagiarise and they write everything on their own."
NPR: "So they may not be plagiarising but aren't you?"
Student: "That's kind of a difficult question to answer. I don't know how to feel. It's kind of a grey area."
No, that's not a grey area at all. You expect to be evaluated on work that's not yours! That's clear academic dishonesty and it's evident that you don't want to be educated there.
Stephen Michael Kellat likes this.
Grey area... ha!! š
There's that four letter F-word: "feel". Feeling has nothing to do with it. There is no "grey area".
A good tactic to get around it, depending upon the academic department, is to require the students to make regular message board posts or to blog fairly constantly. Requiring engagement with each other makes it harder for others to ghost-write. There are fun ways to set up the forums through a little bit of gamification.