The dead end of western academics
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The dead end of western academics
There are two things that pull the western education future backward. First is the widespread idea that each student dissertation must always obey the rule of minimum word requirement and the second is the fact that academic gets too much attached to the idea of avoiding plagiarism in written academic researches.
Minimum word requirements
Nowadays graduate students are required to write approximately 3,000 – 15,000 word long researches. John Nash’s Game Theory dissertation, which is 28 pages long, makes him the Nobel winner in economics in 1994. Humanity prefers short but meaningful researches to rubbish that are 400 pages long. In addition, do professors who grade students really, in fact, read every page of their student works? It can be seen that all western universities handle an increasing number of cases of plagiarism by heavily using the plagiarism detection website.
According to Ian Boyko, national chairman of the CFS, 20 universities in Canada made use of plagiarism detection website without consultation with students , representing disregard for the rights of students (as cited in Grinberg, 2004).
No one will ever read the student works submitted to such website (JOANNE, 2004). Once professors send students homework to the website, the program does the rest.
Jesse Rosenfeld, who had been grade F for deny sending his essays to the plagiarism detection website, later appealed and won the plagiarism case over his professor (Grinberg, 2004).
“I was having to prove I didn't plagiarize even before my paper was looked at by my professor," Rosenfeld said,...