Posts tagged with » Academic Fraud

…And Getting Madder by the Second

‘The service we offer is 100% legal, very legitimate and won’t make you a cheater’, this site informs us. Another essay writing service; but whereas the ‘essay-scam’ was almost charming in its feckless hysteria, this one oozes competence, guilt and pathetic self-justification. ‘Why this is not cheating’, it explains: If you buy one of our […]

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World Most Definitely Gone Mad

If to be honest, according to the price list of the company I though company does good job. Hence I didn’t have any doubt about quality of the service they offer because services were far more expensive than other companies. However, I after I placed order I realised how “serious” was this company. Thus writes […]

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Revealing ellipses

The Chicago ‘rigorous’ method for handling ellipses in quotations (XV 11.57) is the only one that should be acceptable in scholarship. Chicago’s ‘three-or-four-dot method’ permits an incomplete sentence to be presented as a complete one. Thus, as an example, Chicago says that this passage: [A] The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless: […]

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Editing Ethics

Academic fraud policies only partly cover the provision of editing services for under- and post-graduates. St Andrews University’s policy document, for instance, would probably not provide grounds for disciplinary action based on a case in which, for example, a student submitted an essay that he had previously had a professional editor cut down from 3,300 […]

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