At 03:22 PM 1/31/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Yesterday, I sat down to grade the assignments and found to my
surprise
>that two students (they are roommates) had typed up and handed
in the EXACT
>responses to the questions. They didn't even bother to change
the font,
>page margins or one word!
In the event that you haven't already done so, you might
consider including a statement in your course outline _clearly_
specifying the degree of collaboration, if any, allowed in all
types of assignments and also a statement to the effect that
all writing submitted is expected to be the individual
student's own. I point out that a recent survey conducted by
Donald McCabe showed that of all the types of cheating
practices, illegal collaboration in homework assignments is one
of the most frequent types of cheating, and the type that has
increased the most over the years.
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