Students
Rhodes Decision Sets Strict Standard for ‘Own Work’
Christ Church is one of the colleges at the U. of Oxford, where the prestigious Rhodes Trust now requires American applicants to certify that no draft of their essays has been revised by anyone else.
February 10, 2014
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Students take term papers to writing centers. Researchers revise one another’s articles. Academic life relies on such exchanges, yet demands original work. So how much help is too much?
Last month one authority set a strict new standard. The Rhodes...
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