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Gold Award Winner, Non Fiction Book Awards. Nonfiction Authors Association Winner, Next Generation INDIE Book Awards - Social Justice Winner, Next Generation INDIE Book Awards - Young Author (Written by Under Age 25) Recommended Rating - The US Review Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List Winner, Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention - Memoir Montaigne Medal Finalist First Horizon Award Finalist IndieReader Approved Every year, millions of students pay enormous sums for a college education. Most have no idea how easily a single false accusation can derail their dreams. Shocked, shamed, and silenced, they watch their futures crumble in the campus kangaroo courts of ""academic integrity."" Catherine Wagner was an enthusiastic, top-performing student when she unwittingly walked into a trap. After she gave a classmate authorized aid on one part of one homework question, a grader flagged their answers as ""similar,"" and both were accused of cheating. Innocent, Catherine was certain that she would be exonerated. Yet, despite the support of eight PhD experts from across the U.S., she was dragged through her university's academic integrity machine on absurd ""evidence"" of similarities - even the simple use of ""H2O"" to abbreviate water. Forced to defend her reputation and career prospects against the threat of expulsion, Catherine discovered that the University seemed to repeatedly break federal law, spy on her, and reject science in favor of fallacies and falsehoods. Using concepts from statistics and behavioral science to scrutinize audio recordings and university emails, Catherine systematically unmasked the unthinkable: a confidence scheme fueling clandestine research on more than 2,000 students for over a decade.

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This memoir combines exceptional storytelling and rigorous investigative journalism...a chilling and spellbinding account of what happens when one young woman stands up to injustice and academic misconduct committed by the people who purport to be teachers, mentors, advocates, and role models. This riveting and unforgettable memoir is meticulously researched, eloquently presented, and profoundly honest. - Eric Hoffer Book Award A masterpiece describing an unbelievable injustice. The story is remarkable for exposing the lack of logic and maliciousness of a university, and more so for how this brave young woman stood up against an institution, advocated for herself despite the odds, and used logic, Socratic reasoning and evidence to battle against this wrong. She and her story give hope for those in a similar position, as well as a template and method for fighting back. Ms. Wagner's book provides both hope and inspiration for our next generation of leaders. --Eric Storch, PhD, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine Your book is indeed remarkable-an original and unorthodox investigation into a complex and murky issue. It will stand as a major contribution to the critical effort to bring transparency, rationality, and fundamental fairness to the institutionalized covert administrative misconduct against students that pervades American universities and colleges. -Christine McCall, Member, State Bar of California; admitted to practice before the Federal District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. (Retired). Engrossing. The integrity of telling it like it is is on full display here, revealing the rank hypocrisy of administrative academic integrity procedures at great student expense. Adults ganging up on kids to no educational end: where is the accountability? A victim who stands up, raising a voice for victims like her. --Bill Puka, PhD, Professor, Ethicist Easy Marks could be a life-altering read for anyone caught in similar circumstances, and for that reason, her painstakingly careful approach to the potential academic and organizational minefield is admirable. Wagner has collected hundreds of pages to establish her integrity and point out underhanded practices perpetuated by certain members of the University faculty. She has reported hearings word for word, interjecting her own vibrant opinions...in this highly complex, fact-weighted unmasking. She includes interesting, even at times amusing commentary... --Feathered Quill Book Reviews Easy Marks is an intense personal story of academic wrongdoing. Look no further than Wagner's wild story to witness the lengths to which university's academic integrity policies can do more harm than good. There's a lot of detail that will interest university students who want practical information about the labyrinthine process of academic hearings and how they might defend themselves, and the book could be instructive for lawyers too. Wagner demonstrates rigorous commitment to reason and truth. This personal story, with so many facts so precisely recorded, is almost a manual for navigating this university's academic integrity process. --Independent Book Review

This memoir combines exceptional storytelling and rigorous investigative journalism...a chilling and spellbinding account of what happens when one young woman stands up to injustice and academic misconduct committed by the people who purport to be teachers, mentors, advocates, and role models. This riveting and unforgettable memoir is meticulously researched, eloquently presented, and profoundly honest. - The US Review of Books A masterpiece describing an unbelievable injustice. The story is remarkable for exposing the lack of logic and maliciousness of a university, and more so for how this brave young woman stood up against an institution, advocated for herself despite the odds, and used logic, Socratic reasoning and evidence to battle against this wrong. She and her story give hope for those in a similar position, as well as a template and method for fighting back. Ms. Wagner's book provides both hope and inspiration for our next generation of leaders. --Eric Storch, PhD, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine Your book is indeed remarkable-an original and unorthodox investigation into a complex and murky issue. It will stand as a major contribution to the critical effort to bring transparency, rationality, and fundamental fairness to the institutionalized covert administrative misconduct against students that pervades American universities and colleges. -Christine McCall, Member, State Bar of California; admitted to practice before the Federal District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. (Retired). Engrossing. The integrity of telling it like it is is on full display here, revealing the rank hypocrisy of administrative academic integrity procedures at great student expense. Adults ganging up on kids to no educational end: where is the accountability? A victim who stands up, raising a voice for victims like her. --Bill Puka, PhD, Professor, Ethicist Easy Marks could be a life-altering read for anyone caught in similar circumstances, and for that reason, her painstakingly careful approach to the potential academic and organizational minefield is admirable. Wagner has collected hundreds of pages to establish her integrity and point out underhanded practices perpetuated by certain members of the University faculty. She has reported hearings word for word, interjecting her own vibrant opinions...in this highly complex, fact-weighted unmasking. She includes interesting, even at times amusing commentary... --Feathered Quill Book Reviews Easy Marks is an intense personal story of academic wrongdoing. Look no further than Wagner's wild story to witness the lengths to which university's academic integrity policies can do more harm than good. There's a lot of detail that will interest university students who want practical information about the labyrinthine process of academic hearings and how they might defend themselves, and the book could be instructive for lawyers too. Wagner demonstrates rigorous commitment to reason and truth. This personal story, with so many facts so precisely recorded, is almost a manual for navigating this university's academic integrity process. --Independent Book Review

A masterpiece describing an unbelievable injustice. The story is remarkable for exposing the lack of logic and maliciousness of a university, and more so for how this brave young woman stood up against an institution, advocated for herself despite the odds, and used logic, Socratic reasoning and evidence to battle against this wrong. She and her story give hope for those in a similar position, as well as a template and method for fighting back. Ms. Wagner's book provides both hope and inspiration for our next generation of leaders. --Eric Storch, PhD, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine Your book is indeed remarkable-an original and unorthodox investigation into a complex and murky issue. It will stand as a major contribution to the critical effort to bring transparency, rationality, and fundamental fairness to the institutionalized covert administrative misconduct against students that pervades American universities and colleges. -Christine McCall, Member, State Bar of California; admitted to practice before the Federal District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. (Retired). Engrossing. The integrity of telling it like it is is on full display here, revealing the rank hypocrisy of administrative academic integrity procedures at great student expense. Adults ganging up on kids to no educational end: where is the accountability? A victim who stands up, raising a voice for victims like her. --Bill Puka, PhD, Professor, Ethicist Easy Marks could be a life-altering read for anyone caught in similar circumstances, and for that reason, her painstakingly careful approach to the potential academic and organizational minefield is admirable. Wagner has collected hundreds of pages to establish her integrity and point out underhanded practices perpetuated by certain members of the University faculty. She has reported hearings word for word, interjecting her own vibrant opinions at various phases and referencing such historical events as the Salem Witch Trials by way of example of the perfidies she observed and diligently recorded in this highly complex, fact-weighted unmasking. She includes interesting, even at times amusing commentary... Through her persistent struggles and many dialogs with those in power, she was finally exonerated. --Feathered Quill Book Reviews Easy Marks is an intense personal story of academic wrongdoing. Look no further than Wagner's wild story to witness the lengths to which universitys' academic integrity policies can do more harm than good. There's a lot of detail that will interest university students who want practical information about the labyrinthine process of academic hearings and how they might defend themselves, and the book could be instructive for lawyers too. Wagner demonstrates rigorous commitment to reason and truth. This personal story, with so many facts so precisely recorded, is almost a manual for navigating this university's academic integrity process. --Independent Book Review

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