Believe it or not, I took an upper-division English course in which a third of the class was kicked out for using these on-line essay services. The professor entered class the weekend after we had turned in our midterms* and slammed a stack of papers down on the podium and began cussing out the entire class. She said that she was first alerted to the widespread cheating because two students turned in the same paper! Then she complained that she was going to have go through all the trouble of reading through a lot of on-line essays to make sure that no one else had cheated. Finally, she just through open the door and said, "Class dismissed; I'm too fucking pissed to even be here right now." We all just sat there looking at each other, because this teacher was so meek and pleasant, and then she just exploded (although I have to say that I think it was justified).
The class only had about 15 people, and 5 of them were kicked out of the English department over this fiasco.
*And I admit that the midterm was hard, but there's no excuse for this kind of shit.
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Date: 2003-11-23 01:35 am (UTC)The class only had about 15 people, and 5 of them were kicked out of the English department over this fiasco.
*And I admit that the midterm was hard, but there's no excuse for this kind of shit.