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

[(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?