What scene in the film made the strongest impression on you? Please describe and explain. Since you’ll be seeing this film in digital format, please identify the time in the film when the scene occurred. Answers without this verifiable time identification will be returned

ASSIGNMENT SEVEN: Please see the film Shattered Glass (Lionsgate, 2004). You should be able to find the film online here or on DVD. The rental cost is about $4. Important: please include a dated rental or purchase receipt–copy or screenshot–with your answer (sending these kinds of attachments is acceptable). Answers are returned if this requirement is not met. Contact your tutor immediately if you can’t provide such a dated receipt. We cannot accept links to any source engaging in copyright infringement. Finally, we know clips from the film are available online. Using information from those sources is easily detectable and would constitute a violation of our Integrity Affirmation.

Questions for you to answer:

[a] What scene in the film made the strongest impression on you? Please describe and explain. Since you’ll be seeing this film in digital format, please identify the time in the film when the scene occurred. Answers without this verifiable time identification will be returned.

[b] What habits did Glass develop that proved harmful to him? How can you avoid developing comparable bad habits yourself?

[c] What advice would you give to editors about how to avoid hiring someone like Stephen Glass? What kind of pre-employment screening do you recommend?

A word of caution: We’re not asking you to find outside commentary on this film. You’re being asked to think and write for yourself. Much of what we see online about the film is demonstrably wrong–and an invitation to plagiarism (we monitor two pertinent plagiarism sites in particular). The more students appropriate someone else’s work and submit it as their own the less they expand their own capacity for creative thought.

Repeatedly engaging in academic dishonesty is comparable to aspiring to be a top athlete, but hiring someone else to do all the practice and training. It simply doesn’t work. The failure inevitably becomes apparent on the athletic field and in the workplace. Meanwhile, when dishonesty is detected–as it often is–students are creating educational records damaging to their reputation. Please see this related AIS video.