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Thursday, June 15, 2006
11:26:00 AM EDT
Hearing Timeless Motion -- Neal Schon
Apropos of yesterday's entry about kids using the Internet to cheat, here's a fun little screed by university lecturer Alex Halavais on "How to Cheat Good," which you can apparently do by not doing all the stupid things kid in his university classes did. Here's one of the tips, which is in line with one of the things I mentioned yesterday:
4. Dont rite to good
When you “write” a sentence like “The veil of ignorance, to mention one prominent feature of that position, has no specific metaphysical implications concerning the nature of the self; it does not imply that the self is ontologically prior to the facts about persons that the parties are excluded from knowing,” you have two ways of being caught up. First, while I make no claim of having anything approaching an eidetic memory (more like an idyllic memory), it may ring some dusty bells and heck, I might be able to pull the book you stole it from down off my shelf, even if you followed the advice of #3. If my memory fails to serve, as is frequently the case these days, Google Print might help out.
The second way you can trip up is by following this with your original words, which tend to be less sophisticated, or equally sophisticated material from an entirely different source that simply does not seem to make sense in this particular context.
Those teachers. They know. That's all I'm saying. The irony is if people took all the effort that went into cheating and actually applied it to studying, they'd probably get decent grades. I think a lot of folks are under the impression that once they've got a system down for cheating then it'll be easy from there on out. Oddly enough, however, much of studying is a process as well, which is applicable across many academic situations. And unlike cheating skills, studying skills, in themselves, are unlikely to get you the boot from your school.
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11:26:00 AM EDT
Hearing Timeless Motion -- Neal Schon
How to Cheat Good
Apropos of yesterday's entry about kids using the Internet to cheat, here's a fun little screed by university lecturer Alex Halavais on "How to Cheat Good," which you can apparently do by not doing all the stupid things kid in his university classes did. Here's one of the tips, which is in line with one of the things I mentioned yesterday:
4. Dont rite to good
When you “write” a sentence like “The veil of ignorance, to mention one prominent feature of that position, has no specific metaphysical implications concerning the nature of the self; it does not imply that the self is ontologically prior to the facts about persons that the parties are excluded from knowing,” you have two ways of being caught up. First, while I make no claim of having anything approaching an eidetic memory (more like an idyllic memory), it may ring some dusty bells and heck, I might be able to pull the book you stole it from down off my shelf, even if you followed the advice of #3. If my memory fails to serve, as is frequently the case these days, Google Print might help out.
The second way you can trip up is by following this with your original words, which tend to be less sophisticated, or equally sophisticated material from an entirely different source that simply does not seem to make sense in this particular context.
Those teachers. They know. That's all I'm saying. The irony is if people took all the effort that went into cheating and actually applied it to studying, they'd probably get decent grades. I think a lot of folks are under the impression that once they've got a system down for cheating then it'll be easy from there on out. Oddly enough, however, much of studying is a process as well, which is applicable across many academic situations. And unlike cheating skills, studying skills, in themselves, are unlikely to get you the boot from your school.
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You're a good man, John Scalzi.
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Whoops. Fixed!
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Is there a link to the full story? Huh, Mr. Attribution Man? Huh?
;)
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
6/15/06 7:21 PM
umm.... "cliff notes are a great way to learna bout a novel"
and "when you disguise writing, no one has to knwo that it's not original sheesh!
love,natalie