[lbo-talk] Cheating in China...

[Alan Rudy]

I lay out the rules in my syllabus, if I catch you its a zero on the
assignment.  If I catch you twice, you fail.  Anyone any good at cheating
doesn't get caught, but that - generally - takes as much work (and sometimes
generates as much learning) as doing it honestly.  In the end, it's pretty
much only the lousy, disrespectful cheaters I catch and its always direct
cribbing from top 10 google links by folks who neither speak or write
English at all well.
The latest was a non-native student who cut and pasted material directly
from a blog from last years class... hadn't even made the connection.  When
she said that she'd looked at the assignment and had nothing to say, I told
her she'd have a better idea what to write if she came to class it might
help... her answer: "But the syllabus doesn't give me any points for
attendance so I don't."

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
> wrote:


>
> We are better than the Chinese.  We hypocritically deny engaging in
> such activities.  As Frank Knight, the Chicago economist, supposedly
> said, "You should not criticize hypocrisy; at least hypocrites aspire
> to noble ideas."
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:48:19AM -0700, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> > Michael Perelman writes:
> >
> > >... he mentioned that cheating is an integral part of Chinese
> > >culture ...
> >
> > Wait, it's not an integral part of US culture?
> >
> > It's the very foundation of imperial capital!
> >
> > Here in the US we're surrounded by cheaters, it's almost not even
> > worth making the distinction between "regular" behavior and
> > "cheating" behavior.
> >
> > # "If you're not cheating, you aren't winning"
> > #  -- motivational speakers everywhere
> >
> > /jordan
> >
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