Author Archives: Asher Auel

Google your homework

By Asher Auel I’ve noticed recently that students are increasingly using the internet as a key resource when working on homework assignments. In the wake of recent “cut-and-paste” and “contract” plagiarism scandals and an increasingly sophisticated industry devoted to plagiarism commercialization … Continue reading

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Organizing a Reading Seminar

By Asher Auel In the Fall semester of 2006, a small group of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania embarked on the time-honored tradition of organizing a reading seminar.  Independent of any course or professor, we decided to read through Cornell and … Continue reading

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