Sexual Preference Not Changed By Woo-Hooing?
rohina:
Quote from: laeshanin on 2005 September 04, 11:16:26
Ok, I take your point about phone calls, and would agree that people want to hear certain things. I just feel, personally, awkward about feeding them a line.
Ah, ethics. There are some jobs you will do when you are a penurious grad student. Personally, I drew the line at writing essays for money; feeding a line to sad idiots seemed more palatable than my other options.
laeshanin:
I am known to dip into ethics every now and again; it's a bad habit of mine. You demonstrate a very cynical attitude but one that I can applaud. ;D
rohina:
I guess it is also a matter of need and priorities. I spend a lot of time dealing with plagiarists, and not that much with thieves and murderers, so I have a skewed ethical sensibility about academic integrity.
In the case of "ripping off" the people who called me on the psychic line, I think they mainly called because they had no one tot talk to (or no one who would sypathise with their crackpot position), just as much as they called for genuine psychic advice, so I think I did give them what they wanted, partly.
Just as a side note, I would like to say, I wish that in Sims U, the "write my term paper" thing had an option for a negative consequence if you get caught, just like the hacking of grades. There also should be a "buy paper from internet" option with the same possible negative consequences.
laeshanin:
Plagiarism is rife, I'm afraid, and not just in academic circles. I do believe that the funniest thing I heard was of an essay (not mine, thank heaven!) returned with one comment: "I believe you have left out the quotation marks". When the student enquired where, the tutor indicated the start of essay and the end. I think they got a fail...
Kitiara:
Quote from: laeshanin on 2005 September 06, 12:55:01
Plagiarism is rife, I'm afraid, and not just in academic circles. I do believe that the funniest thing I heard was of an essay (not mine, thank heaven!) returned with one comment: "I believe you have left out the quotation marks". When the student enquired where, the tutor indicated the start of essay and the end. I think they got a fail...
You know, I can't decide if that is just too funny, or just too sad.
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