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original and worked to paraphrase accurately. The student has organized the summary wit
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The summary uses an effective amount of signal phrases and has an attribution line.

There are few serious errors in mechanics, grammar, and format, showing that the student
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It accurately summarizes the source article, discussing the situation and context for the ar
be lapses in accuracy or clarity. The student has chosen some appropriate information to s
original, but there may be unimportant details included or important ideas left out. The org
adequate. The summary uses signal phrases and has an attribution line.

There may be errors in mechanics, grammar, and format, but there is marked improvemen
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from the original, but unimportant details are included or important ideas are left out. The
adequate, but may detract from clarity. The summary lacks adequate signal phrases or an

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 wanders and is unorganized. The essay reflects no understanding of basic essay structure
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Comments:

Thearticle,There Is No Harvard Cheating Scandal: The Students Should Be Celebrated

for Collaborating, written by Farhad Manjoo, is a critical review of the investigation happening

at Harvard College. The cheating scandal was unprecedented: many students who took the

course named Introduction to Congress last spring were under suspicion of plagiarism in the

final exam. Even though students were able use books, notes, and internet during taking the test,

they were not allowed to cooperate with peers. Minjoo argues that what students did was

collaboration rather than cheating; therefore, what fundamentally matters in the case is

universities unreasonable hostility towards collaboration.

According to the article, collaboration is regarded as crime in higher education. Minjoo

criticizes universities for arbitrarily labelling students as a cheater. To be specific, he argues it is

not rational to ban cooperating with peers while online collaboration is allowed during the exam.

There are only a few reasons for universities to consider that collaboration is a discomfort.

First of all, Minjoo demonstrates collaboration is praised outside of academia. Many

corporations require employees to have well-developed teamwork. Collaboration allows

development of significant skills which are closely related to teamwork, such as creativity and

problem solving. Allowing collaboration results in a positive outcome, considering the success of

Pixar and Steve Jobs.

 Secondly, Minjoo has readers reconsider the true purpose of assessment: it is to assess

students critical abilities and intelligence beyond mere memorizing. In order to do that, he

insists students would perform better when placing them in an environment to think together,

instead of thinking alone.

Minjoo further argues that the tests design was inappropriate. The test questions and the

attitude of instructor and teaching fellows confuse students. The questions were unclear.

Accordingly, students had to ask someone to clarify their intention. It is unreasonable to prohibit

from discussing with others while allowing students to get help from the teaching fellows about

the exam and to use resources from the Internet. Minjoo questions whether internet use should be

labeled as cheating.

Minjoo concludes what students did is collaboration rather than cheating. He bemoans

universities discomfort with collaboration which has labeled it as a crime although collaboration

should be recognized. Minjoo discloses their inappropriate way of treating the students by

highlighting the significance of collaboration and by criticizing the vaguely designed test and an

ambiguous attitude of instructor and teaching fellows. He further demonstrates that collaboration

is the important virtue to have outside of school. Moreover, in order to truly assess students

abilities, collaboration should be allowed so that students can develop more critical thoughts by

thinking together with others.