Minimalist tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work.
I liked our debate in today's class.
I forgot to point this out in class.
“While student writings are texts, they are unlike other texts in one important way: the process is far more important than the product. Most "real world” writing has a goal beyond than the page; anything that can be done to that writing to make it more effective ought to be done. Student writing, on the other hand, has no real goal beyond getting it on the page. In the real world when you need to have something important written “perfectly.” You hire a professional writer; when a student hires a professional writer, it is a high crime called plagiarism."
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I don't think it is called plagiarism, but it is definitely a form of cheating. The reason it is called plagiarism for us is because we have to write on academic topics, rather than writing information for annual reports. I guess I don't know what type of business you are talking about that would hire a professional writer?
I agree.
I think the author was referring to editors?
Also, I think this part tied with our last article where grad Profs were "proof reading" papers.
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