Hi everyone, as the topic of custom-made papers has been discussed on TIPS, I post the following message with permission of the author, to see if anyone is interested in taking part in this experiment/demonstration. If any of you are interested, please respond to Christine directly.
Thanks. Miguel ---------------- Hi Miguel, Thanks again for your time and your help -- I look forward to meeting you in person. A quick summary of our conversation -- ABC's World News and Nightline are looking into cheating on American campuses, coming off of the recent "Shadow Scholar" article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. As part of our piece, we'd like to get together perhaps 4 or 5 professors working in (roughly) the same field to participate in a modest experiment. We'd like to solicit a made-to-order essay from an online paper company, and, along with perhaps 4 actual essays on the same topic, ask the professors to take a look and see whether it's easy or difficult to recognize the "fake" paper. We think it'd be an interesting exercise, raising the question of whether these services are really as sophisticated and undetectable as the article in the Chronicle seems to suggest, or whether they are actually easy to spot. If it would be possible for you to help us put together a group of perhaps 4 or 5 educators around the country in your field who might be interested in participating in this, that would be great. We're hoping to do this fairly quickly -- sometime in the next few days. And if you could, please ask your colleagues to be discreet about this, as we don't want the word to get out about our "investigation" until we actually go to air next week. Thanks so much in advance for your help. I look forward to hearing from you. All best, Christine Christine Brouwer | ABC News | World News with Diane Sawyer | (212) 456-3698 (o) | (347) 366-2862 (c) | [email protected] _____________________________________________________________________ Miguel Roig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology St. John's University 300 Howard Avenue Staten Island, New York 10301 Voice: (718) 390-4513 Fax: (718) 390-4347 E-mail: [email protected] http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm On plagiarism and ethical writing: http://ori.dhhs.gov/education/products/plagiarism/ _____________________________________________________________________ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=7013 or send a blank email to leave-7013-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
