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blog! “Is it cheating to use spell check?”
When I was a kid, our school had one computer per classroom. Luxury! Teachers had long-since given up on the state of my handwriting. So I got special dispensation to write up some of my work on whatever primitive word processor was installed on the PC. With one caveat: no spell check! Which, even as […]
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@Edent Using spell check isn't cheating. Highlighting incorrect spelling is useful tech for people with disabilities. People with ADHD, dyslexia, vision impairments & other disabilities may have issues spelling words, even if they know how to spell them correctly. Sometimes people spell words differently for cultural reasons or if it's a second language.
Is having a human edit your work also cheating?
A blanket policy like that doesn't sit right with me
@treadlightly I agree.
But is writing whole paragraphs useful technology for people with disabilities?
I think if I got a professional copy-editor to go over my university work, I would have been accused of cheating.
I think there are multiple ways to look at it - none of them entirely coherent.
@Edent Obviously, how your worked is judged or marked at university, isn't up to me.
But unless the editor changed the fundamental points or arguments, you're making, I still wouldn't consider it cheating. You can learn and improve from grammar edits that others make. And isn't the whole point of university to learn?
If you're specifically studying languages? Maybe, but I think that would probably require a more nuanced discussion than just whatever can fit in a mastodon post