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On Not Writing
This article has been reproduced from an article submitted to the Writing Across Boundaries Project funded by the ESRC and hosted by the Universities of Durham and Newcastle. Like perhaps many post-grads I was instructed by my eminent supervisor to read C. Wright Mills 'On Intellectual Craftsmanship' to appreciate his ease with words and the many useful hints and tips on how to work at the 'craft' of academic writing. True, it was lovely reading but it was also hugely dispiriting. Where are my carefully arranged cross-classified files? My creative journal that bridges personal experience with academic reasoning? I mutter to the wall above my computer but this is not perhaps the cultivation of helpful imaginary characters that Mills was referring to? All the encouragement to daily writing results in a paralysis of thought and deep-seated inertia where the trivial and unimportant tri... read more
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Postgraduate Plagiarism
I was digging around in the Independent website and I came across this article looking at postgraduates and plagiarism. According to a JISC report, twice as many postgraduates were guilty of plagiarism in 2008 with an average of 1.19 per cent of postgraduate students involved in cases of plagiarism, compared to 0.67 per cent of undergraduates. This data was supported by statistics from the University of Glasgow. What was even more surprising to me was that it is students from overseas that tend to plagiarise, with 1.76 per cent of all overseas postgraduate students from outside the EU committing plagiarism, compared to 0.11 per cent of all postgraduate students from the UK. According to the Independent article, reasons for this discrepancy are primarily cultural since different educational systems handle referencing in different ways, with some systems having very little est... read more
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September 20th, 2010 08:52
Never has so much
November 5th, 2010 10:31