The media blog of LSE has an interesting link to a post by Alex Halavais – how to cheat good. They quote Halavais – When you copy things from the web into Word… don’t just ‘Edit > Paste’ it into your document. When I am reading a document in black, Times New Roman, 12pt, and it suddenly changes to blue, Helvetica, 10pt (yes, really), I’m going to guess that something odd may be going on.
And then move on to another article in NY Time on the increasing use of technology by students to enable in-class cheating. Remember Sanjay Dutt’s medical exams in Munnabhai? And so, faced with an array of inventive techniques in recent years, college officials find themselves in a new game of cat and mouse, trying to outwit would-be cheats this exam season with a range of strategies — cutting off Internet access from laptops, demanding the surrender of cellphones before tests or simply requiring that exams be taken the old-fashioned way, with pens and paper. Gasp! in other words, send students back to the dark ages – when they merely had to peep into other papers or pass notes around the room?
And then of course, there is the other kind of cheating – or being inspired – change a word here, a tune there and voila! Except take care, as Halavais says, not to blindly copy-paste remember to copy-edit-paste – and then be ready to justify too.
read Alex “how to cheat” post….luved it…so satirical…
how do u come across such great posts on the net with such regularity…thats a mystery
and yes there is so much of pressure to succeed and so many things to do….that can be one excuse for cheating…but why do we blame them alone….kids imitate what they observe in the society
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People in Bollywood have been getting “inspired” since the time immemorial. The difference these days is, the inpiration these days is purer.