How to cheat
Blog scholar Alex Halavais recently wrote an entertaining blog post about his experience of cheaters - how to cheat good - culminating in this gem:
When you copy things from the web into Word… don’t just ‘Edit > Paste’ it into your document. When I am reading a document in black, Times New Roman, 12pt, and it suddenly changes to blue, Helvetica, 10pt (yes, really), I’m going to guess that something odd may be going on.
By an odd coincidence the New York Times has an article on the increasing use of technology by students to enable in-class cheating. I hope that it is no. 6 on the most emailed list because of appalled professors not because students are looking for new cheating ideas!
May 20th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
It keeps getting worse. One of the problems is with the general attitude towards palgiarism. In Sweden we have recently had several cases of Professors being caught for plagiarising others work.
May 22nd, 2006 at 5:26 pm
[...] [via Media@LSE] Alex Halavais hat einige Ratschläge an Studenten zusammengefasst, wie man in Seminar- oder Abschlußarbeiten plagiieren (?) kann, ohne dass es auffällt. Eine sehr schöne Liste, die auf tatsächlichen Täuschungsversuchen beruht und bei der man sich bei allen Punkten an den Kopf fasst, wie doof manche Leute sein können… Make sure you pick a word that sounds impervious and use it incorrigibly, or inventorate words. We’ll be udderly convinced of your genuinity (not to mention your precedential potential) [...]
May 25th, 2006 at 5:40 am
[...] The media blog of LSE has an interesting link to a post by Alex Halavais - how to cheat good. They quote Halavais - When you copy things from the web into Word dont just Edit > Paste it into your document. When I am reading a document in black, Times New Roman, 12pt, and it suddenly changes to blue, Helvetica, 10pt (yes, really), Im going to guess that something odd may be going on. [...]