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Re: Plagiarism/Lists
I must share my "favorite" plagiarism war story to emphasize that it is
not only students who do not understand plagiarism.
We had a rather impressive display about the process of writing a research
paper on a enclosed bulletin board outside our door. A highly acclaimed
professor in the humanities came in and demanded 40 copies for his
junior/senior/grad. level course. I explained that the display copy was
generic and that we customize for individual faculty; moreover, we supply
a single desk copy that the department reproduces. He said he didn't have
time to bother thinking about customizing, but he would take a generic
copy and review it.
A day later he came back with the generic copy, said, "Well, good stuff,
but they ought to get that someplace before they get to me. But I really
liked what you said about plagiarism, so I cut that out and gave it to the
students." Without permission and without credit (I learned later), he
had plagiarized our document on plagiarism! And, of course, he received a
teaching award that year--
Pat McQueeney
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KU's Writing Across the Curriculum Service
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