When teaching, outright copy and paste was common amongst students, although software seems to have reduced that problem especially when students are reminded that pagiarism of even minor extent is considered "academic dishonesty". Nevertheless, small edits of text are sufficient to beat basic plagiarism. In defense of writer…
When teaching, outright copy and paste was common amongst students, although software seems to have reduced that problem especially when students are reminded that pagiarism of even minor extent is considered "academic dishonesty". Nevertheless, small edits of text are sufficient to beat basic plagiarism. In defense of writers, sometimes it is hard to beat the elegance of prose written by a good writer. Poor writers also cover their poor knowledge with ambiguous, or hard to interpret, sentences. Sometimes one has no recourse but to lift that sentence and make small edits so that it does not need to be placed in quotes and sourced, yet still retain its [ambiguous] meaning.
Perhaps LLMs will dumb down the writing [like business writing], but at the risk of plagiarizing text in blocks from phrases, to sentences, to paragraphs. Can this be trained out of them?
As for the resignation of Claudine Gay over plagiarism, idk how serious it was. We know that politicians have often plagiarized others, whether in speeches or in academic work to bolster their credentials. I would hope someone is going over every single thing Stefanik has written and said and looked for evidence of plagiarism, and if found, hound her with the same gotchas she used on the "antisemitism" BS she bullied the 3 chancellors with.
Plagiarism
When teaching, outright copy and paste was common amongst students, although software seems to have reduced that problem especially when students are reminded that pagiarism of even minor extent is considered "academic dishonesty". Nevertheless, small edits of text are sufficient to beat basic plagiarism. In defense of writers, sometimes it is hard to beat the elegance of prose written by a good writer. Poor writers also cover their poor knowledge with ambiguous, or hard to interpret, sentences. Sometimes one has no recourse but to lift that sentence and make small edits so that it does not need to be placed in quotes and sourced, yet still retain its [ambiguous] meaning.
Perhaps LLMs will dumb down the writing [like business writing], but at the risk of plagiarizing text in blocks from phrases, to sentences, to paragraphs. Can this be trained out of them?
As for the resignation of Claudine Gay over plagiarism, idk how serious it was. We know that politicians have often plagiarized others, whether in speeches or in academic work to bolster their credentials. I would hope someone is going over every single thing Stefanik has written and said and looked for evidence of plagiarism, and if found, hound her with the same gotchas she used on the "antisemitism" BS she bullied the 3 chancellors with.