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1、摘 要：When Karen Clos became suspicious of a students essay in her freshman writing class she put a phrase from the paper - joyously absurd - into an Internet search engine. The student became the first at Barton County Community Coll摘 要：When Karen Clos became suspicious of a students essay in her fre

2、shman writing class she put a phrase from the paper - joyously absurd - into an Internet search engine. The student became the first at Barton County Community College in cen.When Karhttp:/www.ukassignment.org/essayfw/576.htmlen Clos became suspicious of a students essay in her freshman writing clas

3、s she put a phrase from the paper - joyously absurd - into an Internet search engine.The student became the first at Barton County Community College in central Kansas to receive an XF grade after the Internet search revealed the assignment was plagiarized.Dozens of schools across the country, includ

4、ing Kansas State University, Penn State University and the University of Maryland, are increasingly assigning the XF grade to students who failed a class because they cheated. The X remains on a students transcript until the student takes an academic integrity course, but the F is permanent.“The ide

5、a is that the X is sort of a scarlet letter, so if you get one you want to get it off,“ said Phil Anderson, the honors system director at Kansas State.Interest in the grade comes as online sites that sell assignments proliferate and research shows cheating is more common than once was thought.“I thi

6、nk this started before the technology,“ said Don McCabe, professor of management at Rutgers University and a national expert on college cheating. “But theres no question theres more interest because of Internet plagiarism.“McCabes research shows about one-third of surveyed students admitted cheating

7、 on tests and about half admitted cheating on written assignments. His research also showed many students dont consider it cheating to cobble a paper together by cutting and pasting passages from the Internet without proper attribution.High-tech helpAt many schools, including KSU, plagiarism has bec

8、ome the most common form of cheating, with most plagiarized assignments lifted from the Internet. Many school officials are becoming concerned that other technology, including cell phones with text-messaging capabilities, can be used to aid cheaters. In February, a dozen students at the University o

9、f Maryland were caught receiving exam answers on their cell phones.“Certainly the research suggests theres been an ongoing increase in the level of cheating since the 1960s,“ McCabe said. “Its not these overwhelming increases. Its these steady increases. Hopefully, its going to begin to turn around

10、with all this attention.“Thats also the hope of Clos and hundreds of other educators who view combating cheating as nothing short of a high-stakes battle with the future of higher education on the line.“We are getting a little cynical, and I think that is a good thing,“ said Clos, also an administra

11、tor, who helped Barton County Community College adopt the XF grade. “I think that institutions of higher education know that if the public loses faith in the integrity of our degrees, we are finished as institutions. They have to mean something.“(责任编辑：admin)留学生作业网提供 www.ukassignment.org 代写 essay,代写assignment，qq1455780998 ，email: