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It can be easy to spot this kind of thing. I recall a student paper that was very well written, although almost every paragraph contained a sentence or two of
by bluenose69 7y ago
It can be easy to spot this kind of thing. I recall a student paper that was very well written, although almost every paragraph contained a sentence or two of terribly garbled English. This was a foreign student with weak English skills, so it was pretty clear that the majority of the paper had been written or at least edited by someone else who was a skilled writer.
This was not a case of copying something from a source, because I avoid asking the same question twice, or asking a question for which a websearch can turn up anything useful.
- dielll 7y agoIt's not as easy as you think. I am from Kenya and we speak and write good English. with the aid of Grammarly premium, all grammatical mistakes are easily spotted and corrected.
- russfink 7y agoHold a three question interview with the claimed author. Ensure that only two questions are based on the paper's claims, eg, So, Professor Newton, is rate of fall linearly or exponentially related to mass?
- abhishekjha 7y agoWait, it isn't related to mass, right? Or am I forgetting my physics? g is m/s^2. No mass factor.
- xzcat 7y agoThat's the joke/trick, it's basically begging the question. You can out a cheater by asking a question of the form: Which is true, (A and A->B) or (A and A->C)? A cheater will fret over whether B or C is true, while someone who did the work will probably immediately identify that A is false and that the question is misleadingly worded.
- 2zcon 7y agoIt takes a very low false-positive rate before most of the people you're catching are just nervous, not cheaters.
- chongli 7y agog is not a constant. It’s the measured acceleration at sea level on earth. Travel into orbit or to another planet and g will be different. The proper equation is: F = GmM/r^2 Where m and M are the masses of the object and earth respectively, G is Newton’s universal gravitational constant, and r is the distance between the centre of masses of the object and earth. So why is there no mass in your little g? Because the force is directly proportional to the mass of the object (holding earth’s mass constant and the distance from it constant).
- chongli 7y agoDepends on what mass you’re talking about. Double the mass of a bowling ball and you won’t notice anything different. Double the mass of the earth, on the other hand, and objects are going to accelerate toward it much more quickly!
- omarhaneef 7y agoHaving a paper edited by a better writer isn't cheating. It should be part of the education process. Several colleges have writing tutors that basically help you edit a paper. The difference between having someone write a paper and having someone edit is non-trivial.