I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date: 26-Sep-1995 01:16pm EST
From: Thomas Langhorne
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TO: Remote RSCS/NJE Network User ( _JNET%HISTARCH@ASUACAD )
Subject: More on info requests
I see that Jim Murphy has put in a very pertinent comment
regarding the frustrations people feel over global "info requests". I
tried to express the same thought yesterday, but perhaps was too wordy
in my posting. There is a difference b/w the 2 types of requests.
Right now, in circles where discussions of academic honesty and
scholarly integrity occur, there is great concern about students simply
getting papers off the internet, just the same way they used to
purchase them 10 yrs ago. In effect, you have a computer literate
student who contrives to have a term paper researched or written by
others on the net who, in good faith, believes they are helping
someone, who doesn't have adequate local resources, expand his/her
education/knowledge. I would venture to guess that in most cases
where this happens, the person supplying the info is completely in the
dark about the uses to which the recipient plans to put it.
Well, I don't want to be accused of producing a diatribe, so I'll
stop here.
Tom Langhorne
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