Hey, high school and university students on SW:
what are some tricks you have successfully used to cheat on assignments?
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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
I wouldn't call it cheating. More manipulating the system to fit my needs. Sometimes the bureaucratic system just did not reflect my needs as a student, and I tried to find alternative approaches.
Prime examples:
I took what was actually a graduate journalism course from a Pulitzer award winning architecture and city planning critic and an introduction to city planning course in the same semester. Both required term papers. The city planning one had a complete syllabus on architectural terms to use, others not to use, structure, etc. I turned in the same paper for both. I attached a note to the city planning course one stating I was a Journalism major so I had ignored the syllabus requirements and written the paper in journalistic style. I got a B+ from the graduate journalism course, which was a little disappointing. The city planning professor gave me an A-, with a note apologizing for having to knock me down "a full grade for being a week late".
Another course on the history of journalism required two term papers on past journalists from a list. I wrote the first on Don Marquis. Read a number of his collected works. Spent a lot of time on it. Got a B. , which was terribly disappointing considering the effort, time, and what I thought was a good report. So for the second one on Ambrose Bierce I waited until the night before it was due, finally pulled myself out of a poker game in the wee hours, sat down with several biographies and essentially plagiarized a paragraph here, a paragraph from there, and turned it in. Got an A and a note from the professor saying please return it for my personal files.
I finally got around to taking an Econ 1A course in my junior or senior year, only because it was a requirement for my major. Went to the first lecture to get the syllabus and schedule for the midterm and final. Took the midterm and final. Never attended a lecture, never read the text. Got a B based on what I already knew about economics from my other courses.
Otoh, I flunked a few courses for my cavalier attitude as well. Never did satisfy one requirement. The Dean finally said he was waiving that requirement because he was sick of seeing me. I think he thought I was hanging on to my student deferment to avoid the military draft.
Prime examples:
I took what was actually a graduate journalism course from a Pulitzer award winning architecture and city planning critic and an introduction to city planning course in the same semester. Both required term papers. The city planning one had a complete syllabus on architectural terms to use, others not to use, structure, etc. I turned in the same paper for both. I attached a note to the city planning course one stating I was a Journalism major so I had ignored the syllabus requirements and written the paper in journalistic style. I got a B+ from the graduate journalism course, which was a little disappointing. The city planning professor gave me an A-, with a note apologizing for having to knock me down "a full grade for being a week late".
Another course on the history of journalism required two term papers on past journalists from a list. I wrote the first on Don Marquis. Read a number of his collected works. Spent a lot of time on it. Got a B. , which was terribly disappointing considering the effort, time, and what I thought was a good report. So for the second one on Ambrose Bierce I waited until the night before it was due, finally pulled myself out of a poker game in the wee hours, sat down with several biographies and essentially plagiarized a paragraph here, a paragraph from there, and turned it in. Got an A and a note from the professor saying please return it for my personal files.
I finally got around to taking an Econ 1A course in my junior or senior year, only because it was a requirement for my major. Went to the first lecture to get the syllabus and schedule for the midterm and final. Took the midterm and final. Never attended a lecture, never read the text. Got a B based on what I already knew about economics from my other courses.
Otoh, I flunked a few courses for my cavalier attitude as well. Never did satisfy one requirement. The Dean finally said he was waiving that requirement because he was sick of seeing me. I think he thought I was hanging on to my student deferment to avoid the military draft.
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69
@dancingtongue ummm that mostly was what we professors consider cheating. But thanks for the detailed account!