Harvard scandal
The latest on the Harvard scandal is in this Crimson article:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/12/allegations-plagiarism-gay-dissertation/?fbclid=IwAR1FfwIvlBOV_mnj8dacipzFS_DgvYlE-XHs9QQfOOEaFW1bALkhplOgnvc
It reminds me that as a former academic ESL teacher, I could consider myself knowledgable about what and what doesn't constitute plagiarism. What I remember is that this is definitely the trickiest part; saying what one researcher said about another can only be put in so many words. And yet as a writer you don't want to appear to not have read anything but somebody's description of what the article said.
Enough said though, since I'm retired, and this blog is full of more intelligent things said about the issue. More later.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/12/allegations-plagiarism-gay-dissertation/?fbclid=IwAR1FfwIvlBOV_mnj8dacipzFS_DgvYlE-XHs9QQfOOEaFW1bALkhplOgnvc
It reminds me that as a former academic ESL teacher, I could consider myself knowledgable about what and what doesn't constitute plagiarism. What I remember is that this is definitely the trickiest part; saying what one researcher said about another can only be put in so many words. And yet as a writer you don't want to appear to not have read anything but somebody's description of what the article said.
Enough said though, since I'm retired, and this blog is full of more intelligent things said about the issue. More later.
posted by tom @ 8:58 AM
This weblog is about my efforts, sometimes futile, to teach about plagiarism to international students. Deeper in the blog is a documented story (if the newspaper articles still are there) about how a really nice guy made a mistake...however, that's water under the bridge. My classes have always been full of nice people who made mistakes.
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