{"id":8835,"date":"2002-11-03T11:57:31","date_gmt":"2002-11-03T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/03\/honor-thy-term-papers\/"},"modified":"2002-11-03T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2002-11-03T16:57:31","slug":"honor-thy-term-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/honor-thy-term-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor thy term papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff><br \/>DURHAM, N.C. \ufffd Like<br \/>\nmost other college students, Eric Rogers knows that submitting a term paper<br \/>\ntaken off the Internet is outright plagiarism, cause for suspension or a failing<br \/>\ngrade.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>What about using a paragraph?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;Just a paragraph?&#8221; he said. Beneath a Duke cap worn<br \/>\nbackward, he pondered. &#8220;A big paragraph or a small paragraph?&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;Taking a paragraph and changing words, I&#8217;ve done that<br \/>\nbefore; it wasn&#8217;t a big deal,&#8221; he decided finally. &#8220;As long as I can manipulate<br \/>\nit to be my words, change a few, it&#8217;s not cheating.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8230;Given research that shows less cheating at colleges<br \/>\nwith strong honor codes than at those without them, some campuses are adopting<br \/>\ncodes for the first time<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8230;&#8221;It&#8217;s a psychological effect: if people expect you to<br \/>\nbe honorable, you are more likely to respond with honorable behavior,&#8221; said<br \/>\nNannerl O. Keohane, the president of Duke. &#8220;We have to build a culture where<br \/>\npeople are genuinely offended by cheating.&#8221;<\/font> <br \/>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/11\/02\/education\/02HONO.html\">Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>What a concept in modern society, expecting people to be honorable and they<br \/>\nmost will likely be. I thought prevailing thought was that behavior can&#8217;t be<br \/>\nchanged and that they are going to do it anyway. If they treated term paper<br \/>\ncheating like sex then they would be handing out pre-written papers. <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/old-oligarch.blogspot.com\/2002_09_01_old-oligarch_archive.html#81861217\">Old<br \/>\nOligarch<\/a> had an excellent post on this topic before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURHAM, N.C. \ufffd Like most other college students, Eric Rogers knows that submitting a term paper taken off the Internet is outright plagiarism, cause for suspension or a failing grade.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}