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I''m currently in a psychology class in a community college and yesterday we had a rather different class. Normally the teacher lectures about the material and has a little interaction with the students. However yesterday we came in and he handed us 20 pages and told us to read it and answer some questions. As I started reading it I got hte impression that it must have been written by a highschooler or something. It had a hand written copyright on it, didn''t have an author name, and had an AOL e-mail address as a contact.
However after a few pages I began to come across many phrases the teach had used in class, word for word. It soon became obvious that the teacher had written it and intended to publish it. All the questions were mostly trying to figure out how well the paper flowed and if the stitching together of various concepts went well. Not what we learned. Actually this material was based on what we had out last test about, this is old material for us.
As for as I''m concerned this is pretty wrong. He used his position to get insight he will use to publish his paper and we didn''t learn anything. Actually, I think many of what he stated as fact was completely in error. I think many people actually got dumber for having read it.
An example of the kind of statements in the paper:
"Before (9/11) it was safe for Americans to travel anywhere in the world, however after......" how can you make that kind of statement?
The whole think just pisses me off. Am I over reacting? SHould I report this? Would a teniored teacher even be punished for this?
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