WriteCheck has introduced a new feature, Ask WriteCheck, in which students are invited to ask questions about “plagiarism, citation, grammar/writing, and many other tricky situations that may occur at school.”
The very first question posed to Ask WriteCheck gets a very strange answer, one of those Continue reading
A frequent question in academic and educational forums is, “How much help can a student get?”
The answer, not surprisingly, must be “It depends.”
In the first place, it depends on the terms of the assignment. If the instructions state that the work must be done without help, then no help is permitted.
If the instructions state that the work can or must be carried out in consultation Continue reading
First, let’s be clear: this is NOT a piece on Margaret Thatcher’s place in British or world history. It is a piece on journalism, and the rewriting of, if not history, then at least a rewriting of the record.
Let’s start with the story. While writing to an American friend, I wanted to give her a link to the debate over the BBC’s dilemma as to whether to play “Ding-dong! the witch is dead” on its weekly top of the music charts radio programme this week. “Ding-dong…” is a short number from the 1938 musical The Wizard of Oz, and has been adopted as the anthem of an anti-Thatcher FaceBook group. Since Thatcher’s death earlier in the week Continue reading