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Common Errors in “The Cheating Epidemic” by Ed Dante

Common Errors in “The Cheating Epidemic” by Ed Dante. Issue #1: First-person Thesis. I personally feel we should incorporate year-long portfolios. We should have smaller class sizes. If we had mentor teachers, I believe students would feel that someone actually cares about them.

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Common Errors in “The Cheating Epidemic” by Ed Dante

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  1. Common Errors in “The Cheating Epidemic” by Ed Dante

  2. Issue #1: First-person Thesis • I personally feel we should incorporate year-long portfolios. • We should have smaller class sizes. • If we had mentor teachers, I believe students would feel that someone actually cares about them.

  3. Issue #2: Incomplete Thesis Statements: State your opinion and include BECAUSE! • To solve this problem, year-long portfolios should be instated BECAUSE • Kids should be allowed to choose their schedules BECAUSE • Parents should teach their kids about the value of education BECAUSE

  4. Issue #3: When to Directly Quote, When to Paraphrase • Paraphrase factual examples—you can put them in your own words while still citing the article • Dante claims to have made $66,000 in one year by writing college-level papers for students (36). • Directly quote powerful lines that are worth directly citing—you can’t paraphrase it because it wouldn’t be as effective • Dante was disheartened to find out that “college was just another place where grades were grubbed” (36).

  5. Issue #4: How to Cite • Include page number in parentheses and punctuation at the end of the parenthesis. • Dante claims the problem stems from the “focus on evaluation over education” (39). • Dante has helped numerous students cheat, from medical students, to educational students, even seminary students (36).

  6. Issue #4 continued…How to Cite: Underline, Italicize, Quotation Marks? • Underline or italicize (interchangeable) books, long works, movies, journals, etc. • The Color of Water • Place titles of articles, poems, and short pieces in quotation marks • “The Cheating Epidemic”

  7. Issue #5: Naked Quotes • Use signal phrases to introduce quotes—or else they are random…and nekkid. Smoothly integrate quotes by introducing them first. • For example, Dante says that “……………..” (35). • He also claims that “---------------” (32). • The education system only focuses on “evaluation, not the actual learning process” (37).

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