A civil servant at the Treasury, he is a well-liked, diligent academic – brown suits and unwittingly trendy stubble with a "shed-load of integrity".
During the day, Wang was the hardworking coder at Facebook who - using his own words - "can read a single pixel mistake from meters away". At night, he was a diligent academic reading tons of white papers on blockchain projects.
But the temptation to pathologise certain behaviours is inherent to the self-improvement genre and The Village Effect, for all its careful discussion of the science and diligent reference to academic studies, is written very much from a self-improvement perspective.
Open dialogue reassures the diligent student that academic integrity is taken seriously.
Now, your pal David will probably say that when he put out his list of taboo quotes over a decade ago, it was merely because he had decided, being such a diligent scholar, to raise the academic standards of his work.
I cried three times because I used to believe that a diligent student who excelled at academics stood to get a chance," he said.
That may be so, although diligent research in the manner of our academic times has produced no evidence that he actually saw the body's recovery.
It was then, Mr. Parker said, that he experienced what he called an existential crisis, torn between becoming an academic like his father (a "diligent normal person," as the younger Mr. Parker put it) or something altogether different.
As this academic year gracefully comes to a close, YPPS has been diligent in providing students, administrators, and faculty with our expertise and printed media.
Furthermore, this form of academic misconduct has the potential to devalue tertiary qualifications, disadvantage honest, diligent students, and risks enabling unskilled, unqualified contract cheaters using unethically-gained qualifications to secure employment that they are not capable of undertaking.
And students, who see little or no pressure to be other than "disengaged lazy whiners" will continue to pay the price for their lack of education, both in college and at work, and we will continue to draw behind in comparison with those countries who realize that student academic achievement has always been, and will always be, mainly dependent on diligent student academic work.
