Recently research, albeit from a sample size of 90, suggests students would be happy to pay for an essay. Seeing themselves as participants in a consumer market? or simply codifying what they were doing anyway? Dunno about you lot, but I wrote essays for other people at Uni, I copied lab reports from various people, or we collaborated (you write this section, I'll write this bit). Seemed reasonable, sometimes it cost me beer, sometimes it earned me beer. An interesting exercise in bartering really. From the marking perspective it's generally quite hard to spot plagiarism when essays are turned in printed (electronic is easier, as you can batch script them to run through online test sites), except for the odd case - including idiots who put theirs in one on top of the other. Dicks.
Oh the report is here. And the original conference here.
I watched The Road last night. Loved the book, very dark, depressing, sparse and direct. It's refreshing in an author to see writing that blunt and beautiful. For the music kids out there, it's cold, direct and deep, think Obzen by Meshuggah. Yeah, OK only really S2H will get that.
The movie does a good job of the book, although probably not as brutal as the book. It's shot in a very muted colour palette to enhance the desolation. No complaints from me about the movie, I'm still not convinced by the need for the happy ending, it smacks too much of pressure by publishers (Marillion Brave problem). But acting is great, music sympathetic (Nick Cave, Warren Ellis), and it sucks you into the dystopian view.
Worth watching 5/5.
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