http://www.metafilter.com/tags/termpapers Posts tagged with 'termpapers' at MetaFilter. Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:08:49 -0800 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:08:49 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/47318/World%2Dof%2DWarcraft%2D101 <a href="http://www.trinity.edu/adelwich/mmo/students.html">Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games</a> Students of Trinity University's Communications department wrote their term papers on various issues that come up in the MMORPG, <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com</a ">World of Warcraft</a>. I'd like to take that class! tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.47318 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:08:49 -0800 termpapers worldofwarcraft BuddhaInABucket http://www.metafilter.com/13146/ All sorts of delicious ethical issues here: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059540">Slate's guide to buying a term paper online</a>. One of Slate's recommendations: "a smart but horribly lazy student could choose to put his effort into editing instead of researching and writing: Buy a mediocre paper that's done the legwork, then whip it into shape by improving the writing and adding some carefully chosen details." (Perhaps most revealing and disturbing aspect of the article is how the judges explain how they grade horrible papers -- an "utterly meaningless" essay earns a C- and another paper which deserves an F would earn the phrase "please come see me" because they don't dispense Fs at Columbia.) tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.13146 Sat, 15 Dec 2001 01:17:05 -0800 cheating education essays plagiarism slate termpapers palegirl