I've just looked at the sample essay on 'Terrorism', and a number of
things strike me.
1. The essay has evidently been digitised from hard copy without being
proof-read (there are redundant occurences of ¬ where there would have
been hyphens at ends of lines, and 'modem' instead of 'modern' is a
give-away). This casts some doubt on the claim about electronic
plagiarism detection.
2. No university professor in their right mind would ask a student to
write an essay on 'Terrorism', without a far more specific title.
3. The essay is a mixture of unsupported assertions and quotations from
authorities. I don't see any evidence of analysis or the development of
a point of view. If this is the criterion by which an essay is to be
judged (as it should be), I would fail it.
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George MacDonald Ross
Director
Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies
of the Higher Education Academy
Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
+44(0)113-343-3283
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http://www.prs.heacademy.ac.uk
University Teaching Fellow (2005)
National Teaching Fellow (2006)
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