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An adjunct professor and someone who supplies term papers to cheaters have a dialog. Why the students cheat, what they're willing to do to avoid the work, how they're caught -- interesting.

Sad.

Once I would have been appalled by this. I do think a lot of people don't understand plagiarism -- I know I didn't until maybe eighth grade. But once I did understand it, it didn't happen again. Now, sadly, I understand it better for intro classes especially, for classes required but never used again. Now, I momentarily found myself thinking that I could learn about a lot of things at other people's expense, and get paid for it.

Clearly, I've reached the point where I would consider ghost writing. Preferably not in my own field, but you never know.

This dip is because I got turned down for the insurance. They'll tell you why they turned you down -- but not if (nor how long you must be away from the problem) you could reapply with any hope of success.
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http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=50258751&subject=entertainment

One of the things that irritates me the most about this is, why in heavens' name didn't this young woman write her own book, using the tropes of a transition family from India? I can see the owner of my favorite Indian restaurant coming up with a plan to Get His Granddaughter A Life -- it's pure culture.

Instead, she not only mimicked books from her teen years, she apparently borrowed entire passages wholesale.

And some editor paid her six figures to do this? Do you realize how many books a novel in this price range has to sell for the publisher to make any money at all?

I certainly hope that that editor is around when *I* release my next manuscript to the NYC Wars.

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