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If students want to circumvent their addiction, and avoid academic trouble, they can do what I've done in previous paragraphs. Use those funny little things called quotation marks and give credit where credit is due.
If writing and the avant-garde have a node point in 2011, it's poet and critic Kenneth Goldsmith.
This is the strange and sad tale of a writer who couldn't fulfill his potential through legal means--and so started to copy from the best.
It's important for educators to accept that this is a real and widespread issue, and to bring it up themselves in the classroom rather than just sweep it under the rug and hope no one goes snooping for it.
I have thought about and read Goldsmith and his work, although perhaps the reading was unnecessary. Goldsmith doesn't want people to actually read his books.
The number of writers who repurpose other writers' words and call it legitimate original artwork (not to mention the number of advocates for such a practice) is -- very disconcertingly -- on the rise.
Is it really stealing if you're only grabbing two sentences? I'd guess that's how many Twitter thieves justify their plagiarism.
The investigation cleans up Scott McInnis a bit, but it doesn't clear his name, unless you believe throwing people under buses is a good idea.
I've dug into plenty of plagiarism incidents involving reporters over the years, but I'll confess that I'm totally stumped by the case of Sari Horwitz. Here's the puzzling part.
Does anyone really believe that Sarah Palin wrote by herself two full-length books? Neither of these books print on the cover or inside any acknowled...
I wanted to see what would happen if I hired PhD-Dissertations.com, a "research assistance company", to write my modest proposal on privatizing everything university related.
Scribd advertises itself as a social publishing web site where you can upload your writings and documents instantly and discover unique content. They don't add that you can also steal people's books, but you sure can.
When CentralWorks offered the world premiere of Machiavelli's The Prince, I was struck by the playwright's skill at making Machiavelli's treatise on the use of power so relevant to contemporary politics.
Journalists may not like to think of themselves as grade-school teachers for public officials and candidates, but they often serve this function.
All of us make mistakes. If you are human, you make mistakes. If you are in politics, you make a lot of them. But plagiarism is one of those crimes people learn about in kindergarten.
Unlike those socialists lining up to mainline milk from the nanny state, there are many of us who favor fiscally sound solutions. My plan would hand over all aspects of academic life to private companies.
