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...Handbook for Students, there is a short section entitled "Submission of the Same Work to More Than One Course." Although the description of the rules about dual submissions does not include an explicit rationale for the current policy, I assumed that dual submission was a way of saving time when you had an overly demanding schedule...
WHEN I recently requested permission to dual submit an essay, I was told by one professor that my paper for him must be twice the regularly assigned length. His reasoning, he told me, was simple: dual submission is not an excuse for a student to do any less work than his or her chosen schedule demands. If I wanted to submit one paper for two classes, I had to produce a significantly more substantial piece of work...
...wanted to hear. After all, what right did this professor have to tell me how much work I should be doing? I could just as easily have chosen a lighter courseload and not had the problem of having to do two 10-pagers, a 12- to 15-page one, and a 30-page tutorial essay due for the end of the term, and he could not have done anything about...
...that I would be choosing my courses solely on the basis of the workload involved. Although this is a compromise all students must make every term, it is certainly not an inclination professors should encourage. If faced with a choice between taking a more demanding courseload while dual submitting one paper and taking a bunch of guts, I think that most professors would want students to choose the former...
Granted, COCA's underlying intention of calling our attention to the atrocities of the past week is, by itself, noble. No one with sympathy for the people of El Salvador can justify what happened. Why, then, was I so quick to throw out the memo? And why do I feel so compelled to denounce COCA's strategy...