Academic koan

[robinturner]

If a student tries to hide his plagiarism by garbling the original source so much that it becomes totally meaningless and incomprehensible, can it still be said to be plagiarism?

Comments

[chippiex.livejournal.com]

No but it can get an F.

[chr0me-kitten.livejournal.com]

At a poetry reading, it's dadaist found art. In the classroom, that student's ass is grass.

What has never been appropriated?

[staircasebreath.livejournal.com]

What ARE the rules anyway?

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about that, but here's a line from a theater review that had me scratching my head yesterday:
"Truth is elusive, amorphous and as alive and mutable as the people."

Um, I thought the fact that truth WASN'T mutable is what makes it, you know...true.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Not if you're a Pragmatist, or a Post-modernist or ...

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the student. If Charlie Parker did it you would give him top marks.

Trev

(Speaking of Charlie Parker, I was in a restaurant a couple of weeks back and ran into Mark Priestley. Well, not ran exactly, because I had just my appendix out and could barely walk, but we had a nice chat).

[solri.livejournal.com]

Was he complimenting a lady on her jacket at the time, by any chance?