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Robin Turner ([personal profile] robinturner) wrote2002-10-31 12:46 am
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Academic koan

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?
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[identity profile] chippiex.livejournal.com 2002-10-30 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
No but it can get an F.
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[identity profile] chr0me-kitten.livejournal.com 2002-10-30 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
At a poetry reading, it's dadaist found art. In the classroom, that student's ass is grass.

What has never been appropriated?

[identity profile] staircasebreath.livejournal.com 2002-10-30 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
What ARE the rules anyway?

[identity profile] oblomova.livejournal.com 2002-10-31 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] solri.livejournal.com 2002-10-31 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Not if you're a Pragmatist, or a Post-modernist or ...

(Anonymous) 2002-10-31 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
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).

[identity profile] solri.livejournal.com 2002-11-05 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Was he complimenting a lady on her jacket at the time, by any chance?
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