Comments on: Google bans essay writing adverts

By: Rajitha

Rajitha — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:26:52 +0000

cpelanka, an undergraduate himself, I guess, laments about students do ‘cuts and pastes’ in their work.

Are students the only culprits?

When I was doing my Masters at a reputed university in Sri Lanka, the students very liberally downloaded the stuff from Internet and included in their assignments. There was one case, three assignment papers had few identical paragraphs (verbatim). An inquiry was held and the verdict was *the students copied from each other*. Understandably, none of the three students admitted copying (from each other) and provided affidavits, truthfully. University could not do anything, so they dropped the matter.

Funniest thing is when this drama was on, none of the lecturers ever thought that these students downloaded stuff from the web.

They were so outdated to even make such a guess.

If the lecturers are familiar with the stuff on Internet, at least on the stuff they teach, I do not think the students will be able to cut and paste as they do now.

By: cpelanka

cpelanka — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:27:21 +0000

It will be a good effert to reduce copy & paste culture of some university student. Most people when they do course works & other academic work they try to find whole thing from internet and paste on to papers.

By: Agni

Agni — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:27:48 +0000

Lets sell a gun, and ask them to shoot only targets drawn on trees and not animals!
“Managing director Matthew Wilson says this will punish the legitimate, transparent companies, which sell essays, but which warn students that they must not be used dishonestly.”

Anyways, wouldn’t search results get cheaters in to such sites?