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If Your Parents Bought Your Way Into School, Maybe They'll Pay For This, Too
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You could always buy college essays, and this article shows that in Canada as well as in the U.S. and everywhere there are colleges, there's a brisk business to be made from providing lazy students with term papers, but they've gotten better at making them undetectable from plagiarism software. As someone who was actually good at writing term papers, let me make a suggestion: Stop requiring papers in any class where they aren't really indicative of whether a student knows the material. Some people just can't write -- MOST people can't -- and others are too lazy to put in the work. Find another way (exams? Orals?) to determine a student's knowledge of the material, and let those who CAN write do so in courses when it makes sense. We good? (And did you ever take a short cut when a term paper was due?) (CBC)
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