The close paraphrasing (to be generous . . . looks more like mosaic
plagiarism) might be forgiven in a student paper if it included a citation
for the original author. Missing in last night's speed.
When students copy words verbatim and do not cite the author, they steal
both the author's
I think it is funny that politicians and those in the political realm can
employ speech writers while claiming everything they say is their own thoughts.
While 7% overlap in a tested document on a plagiarism detector might not
automatically raise a red flag, I definitely wouldn't look kindly on
Dear Tipsters,
Assuming that the speech writers attended university, would they not have
learned what plagiarism is?
Stuart
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"Floreat Labore"
7% is the amount accounted for at this moment in time.
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu
Professor
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
It's Hillary's fault. See:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/19/paul-manafort-blames-hillary-clinton-for-melania-trump-speech-plagiarism-allegation/
Also, quoting from the WSJ article:
|New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is slated to speak Tuesday
|at the convention, said the similarities
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take,
and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
- T. S. Eliot
Make of that what you want.
Chris
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Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
quote from the CNN report:
"Manafort said the words Melania used were not "cribbed" but are common words."
What a great defense to the charge of plagiarism. We have a bass player in our
bluegrass group who often tells a joke on stage. He claims to know all the
words to all the Bluegrass
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html
Send me something. ;-)
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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