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Quality teaching the key to deterring contract cheating: a student’s perspective

A few months ago I came across a disturbing leaflet at my university campus that promised completed assignments with a fee of 50 euro per page. It assured to erase the stress of students having to spend time on homework, as the ghostwriters were there to help them deal with the ‘ordeal’.

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  1. Although Turnitin may not yet have caught up with ‘word spinning’ you can easily smell it if you take the trouble to read the assignment. When a project proposal discussing putting wind generator on roofs repeatedly mentions “optional vitality” it is hard to miss it. I was alerted to contract cheating when I received a bill from someone in Hyderabad. The student had inadvertently sent a message with ‘reply all’. A classic example had the email address of the vendor attached, someone @cityu.edu.hk. In case you had missed it, the words ‘optional vitality’ had bee substituted for ‘alternative energy’.

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