Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Who copied who? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:40:56 +0900 Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4122DDD8.4020502@hotmail.com> References: <73fde4f0.0408160909.b852b6d@posting.google.com> <41216BEC.2080400@hotmail.com> <4122BA7D.4030909@hotmail.com> <4122D819.65345942@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 9KeIBCYVr2R8INmjTGLRlQAxzV8QqVK//D/JNBhFaYbuD6BweW User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4122D819.65345942@yahoo.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:16606 John W. wrote: > Declan Murphy wrote: > >>Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: >> >>>Declan Murphy wrote: >>> >>>>Hmm - looks worth investigating. That one was written by a student >>>>(paid), and I'll take our copy down while I write to them. >>> >>>Authored by Thomas A. Stanley and R.T.A. Irving >>>Copyright ゥ 1996, 1998 >>> >>>"This project, by Dr. R.T.A. Irving of Kwansei Gakuin University in >>>Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and Dr. Thomas A. Stanley, Department of >>>History, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, began as a multimedia >>>CD-ROM project ..." >>> >>>Sounds like there's a student who will receive some serious spanking ... >> >>Looks like it. I've already sent the "Sorry to bother you but, ..." email. > > My bad. Or good, depending on perspective; actually I thought it'd be the > other way around. My friend's a high school teacher and often uses the > Internet to search for elements of his students' papers. One thing that amazes > me (and him) is that a lot of his students don't realize how odd it looks to > have a paragraph of terrible grammar followed by one that is all but perfect. I guess I'll have to implement a similar check process. The articles are usually written by students (usually by those with a little bit of month left over at the end of the money) for a small fee. -- "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on"