Re: Normalisation review

"David Cressey" <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

> > Who was doing that here?
 

> Like vc, I agree that the question was innocuous. The OP was asking for the
> meaning of a term, not the answer to an exercise.

And anyway, the vast bulk of work (academic I mean) is copied from somewhere, with the student/worker only asked to add something (normally vanishingly small) to the corpus of knowledge.

I know for a fact (and I'm not ashamed to say it) that my degree thesis was a modicum of original research expanded by much knowledge that I "copied" from books/the literature generally.

Suffice to say that I didn't lift entire pages from single authors (one of my classmates got caught doing that - but he was only thrown out for a year - still expensive in a country where there were still university fees at the time), but much of it was a synthesis of what other people had done in the field.

To what extent was/am I a copier and to what extent a good student (I got a good mark/grade)?

My .sig's already big enough without trying to put something further saying that we are prepared to help with homework, on condition that

1. you show that you have made some effort yourself

and

b) it's not lifted straight from a gradeable assignment.

Paul...  

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