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<font size=3>At 05:44 AM 4/3/2014, R. Ben Waxman wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 3/30/2014 1:31 PM, Simon
Montagu wrote:<br>
> It's not clear from the<br>
> question that any breach of the university regulations is
involved,<br>
> especially if RAY didn't learn in a university himself.<br><br>
I understood the question to be "We know that my doing the work for
her <br>
is wrong, but everyone does it and the professors know that everyone
<br>
does it".<br>
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No professor who takes his/her job seriously should in any way condone
cheating and copying. I personally never give the same exam as I
have given in previous years. Furthermore, all of my old
exams and their solutions going back for many years are on my course web
site. This semester I am teaching a course in differential
equations. See <br><br>
<a href="http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/ma221/old_exams221_2.html" eudora="autourl">
http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/ma221/old_exams221_2.html</a><br><br>
for my "old" exams page that go back to 1993. <br><br>
A couple of semesters ago a student told me that he had recently taken an
exam in another course (not a math course) and that he had done
well, because he had gotten the exam that the professor had given
last year, and it was the same exam. I asked if other students also
had access to this exam, and he replied that most did not. This,
IMO, is most unfair. Professors should make up new exams each
semester.<br><br>
I can understand how in a humanities course a writing assignment could be
the same from one year to the next if the same book is read, and the
assignment is something like "Discuss the strengths and weaknesses
of the main character." However, this does not mean that
the instructor should condone students copying the essays of students who
took the course previously. Plagiarism is not to be condoned and
ignored. <br><br>
There are programs that detect plagiarism. See
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/mnhy29z" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/mnhy29z</a> for example. <br><br>
Honesty is a core value of Yahadus, and no rabbi should indicate in any
way that one is allowed to cheat by copying. <br><br>
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