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**datingcrew** · 01-21-2009, 01:42 AM

Since the professors didn't make money on used book sales, they used to make a few changes so they could rerelease the text book, (which they wrote) to force people to buy NEW.

And that's why we have course book library in the Uni.
You know? The LIBRARY HAS THE BOOKS ALREADY, adn enough for all or at least most students.

Both of these were common when I was at university: the lecturers would centre their lectures around books they had written, but some of the students knew that the majority of the content was stolen, and that you'd get better marks if you turned up to seminars with your own ideas, rather than those the lecturer had preached and written well before you even arrived at university. So if you could turn up to a seminar with your own ideas, and the ability to defend them, then it wouldn't matter what the lecturer had written.

Following on from Pekka, I discussed my proposed essay with my tutor two months before it was due, and went to the library the next day to get the book upon which it was based the next day, only to find my tutor had taken the book out himself. The tutors got to keep the book for three months, and since he'd disappeared to Wales for the holidays (early), there was no chance of my getting the book back in time to write the essay I'd planned. Fortunately, student cards in the UK allow you to enter any university library, and I was fortunate enough to be able to go to Newcastle Uni's library during the Easter break, find the books I needed, and write two 1st-rated essays in a week.

01-21-2009, 01:42 AM	#6
datingcrew Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 380 Senior Member	Since the professors didn't make money on used book sales, they used to make a few changes so they could rerelease the text book, (which they wrote) to force people to buy NEW. And that's why we have course book library in the Uni. You know? The LIBRARY HAS THE BOOKS ALREADY, adn enough for all or at least most students. Both of these were common when I was at university: the lecturers would centre their lectures around books they had written, but some of the students knew that the majority of the content was stolen, and that you'd get better marks if you turned up to seminars with your own ideas, rather than those the lecturer had preached and written well before you even arrived at university. So if you could turn up to a seminar with your own ideas, and the ability to defend them, then it wouldn't matter what the lecturer had written. Following on from Pekka, I discussed my proposed essay with my tutor two months before it was due, and went to the library the next day to get the book upon which it was based the next day, only to find my tutor had taken the book out himself. The tutors got to keep the book for three months, and since he'd disappeared to Wales for the holidays (early), there was no chance of my getting the book back in time to write the essay I'd planned. Fortunately, student cards in the UK allow you to enter any university library, and I was fortunate enough to be able to go to Newcastle Uni's library during the Easter break, find the books I needed, and write two 1st-rated essays in a week.
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