the future of plagiarism

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 26 11:09:01 PDT 2002



>After the final essay was handed in, the prof handed back the term
>papers and mine had a note that said, `No grade! See me!'. So I went
>the next day and met with him. He accused me of plagiarizing the
>paper, on the basis that it was too good to be written by me. How do
>you prove you didn't plagiarize? We argued for about twenty minutes and
>I tried to demonstrate that I knew the paper and all the arguments and
>could defend it because I had written it. No good. He just didn't
>believe it. So instead of A or B, he gave me a C as a compromise since
>I had gotten an A on the final. In other words, he just threw it out
>anyway. Nice huh? I decided after that, English professors had their
>head up their asses.
>

That's rubbish of course. It's quite different when you can produce the source from which the submitted paper was plagiarized. Plagiarism is pretty much de rigueur in law. I'll take propositions from cases word for word, no quotes, though with a cite, and plug 'em in.

jks

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