How To Write a Term Paper and Get an F
19 January 2009 at 12:52 pm Peter G. Klein Leave a comment
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While Googling for some entrepreneurship references I stumbled upon this entry from one of those term-paper download sites. The site is called how-to-write-a-term-paper.net. Unfortunately, whoever created the site neglected to check the content of the papers because this one, which happens to be in one of my research areas of interest, is pretty bad. Sample passage: “We must first debunk the idea, advocated by Knight and Mises, of the entrepreneur as risk-bearer (Peter Swoboda, 1984). Aside from making every stock market participant an entrepreneur, this definition simply does not describe actual entrepreneurs and must be discredited.” Um, OK. Aside from misunderstanding the distinction between risk and uncertainty — which, after all, is supposed to be Knight’s main contribution — and arguing by begging the question, this reads like, well, a high-school term paper. But maybe that’s the point — when you plagiarize, it should look authentic.
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