Is it illegal to buy notes?
Is this legal? Yes. As long as the subject notes are a mixture of your research and thinking from multiple sources (eg lectures, textbooks, private research), you are legally the author of a new work and have the right to sell it.
Can I use lecture notes in an essay?
Tip: Cite information from your own personal notes from a lecture as personal communication and refer to it only in the body of your essay. Follow the format examples for a personal communication in the APA Guide.
Can lecture notes share?
Assuming that’s the case: yes, you can share lecture notes. I advise that you contrive to do it more quietly. Giving your instructor even plausible deniability that you are not sharing your lecture notes should go a long way towards defusing the situation.
Do Professors give lecture slides?
Yes, it is common, at least at the freshman and sophomore level. In my experience, few professors provide digital notes (or digital copies of lecture slides) in the upper levels of undergrad teaching.
Is selling notes cheating?
To cut to the point, yes, sharing notes can be considered academic cheating. How, you may ask? While it often happens innocently enough, some professors consider giving your notes to a classmate academic cheating.
Is using someone elses notes cheating?
No, it is not cheating. It’s also not cheating for them to go to the library and find a particularly well written textbook that no-one else had. It’s not cheating for them to hire a tutor. It’s not cheating to share your revision notes with other students before your exam.
Should I reference lecture notes?
You should only cite the lecture notes if (1) they are the original source, or (2) the original source is inaccessible, either literally (out of print or unpublished) or figuratively (written in a foreign language, with excessive generality or formality, or just badly).
Is it bad to share notes?
To cut to the point, yes, sharing notes can be considered academic cheating. While it often happens innocently enough, some professors consider giving your notes to a classmate academic cheating. Even if a student is out sick, a professor may charge both students with something called unauthorized collaboration.
How can I share my notes with someone?
Share notes, lists & drawings
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Keep app .
- Tap the note you want to share.
- Tap Action .
- Tap Collaborator.
- Enter a name, email address, or Google Group.
- Choose a name or email address. To remove someone from a note, tap Remove .
- In the top right, tap Save.
Do professors share slides?
Yes, this is also common. I have shared my course materials with instructors at my own university and at other universities. Many of my course materials are hosted online with an explicit Creative Commons license allowing others to use them.
Do professors own their lectures?
Classroom professors have long enjoyed a cultural exemption to this statute, however: while they’re paid to teach and do research, their lectures, syllabi and other nonpatentable work almost always belong to them, not the university.
Is there a way to sell my college notes online?
It is nothing but selling your notes online. Sell the notes of your previous classes or the ones you no more need and earn some side cash. Selling notes doesn’t require you to do any extra work. You already spend time in college taking notes every day, that is all the time you need to invest in this side hustle.
Do you need to sell structured notes before maturity?
Should you need to sell your structured note before maturity, it’s unlikely the original issuer will give you a good price—assuming they are willing or interested in making you an offer at all. Since structured notes don’t trade after issuance, the odds of accurate daily pricing are very low.
Is it worth it to invest in structured notes?
However, investment banks (which are in many ways just sales and marketing machines dedicated to separating you from your money) don’t reveal that the cost of that protection usually outweighs the benefits. But that’s not the only investment risk you’re taking on with structured notes. Let’s take a closer look at these investments.
Why are buffered and return enhanced notes good for You?
Buffered means it offers some but not complete downside protection. Return-enhanced means it leverages market returns on the upside. The BREN is pitched as being ideal for investors forecasting a weak positive market performance but also worried about the market falling. It sounds almost too good to be true, which of course, it is.