“AI and the Death of Student Writing”
In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Lisa Lieberman, a community-college instructor, writes about “AI and the Death of Student Writing.”
Plagiarism in high places
Gotta wonder sometimes who bothers to read the dissertations and theses they’re signing off on.
Claudine Gay has resigned
When the charges of plagiarism against Gay became news, I recalled my theory of plagiarism: “plagiarism seems to be governed by a sliding scale, with consequences lessening as the wrongdoer’s status rises.” I thought she’d make it through. But no.
Trump as student
When I hear Donald Trump dodge and lie, I sometimes imagine what it might have been like to have him as a student.
Have I heard that song before?
In The New York Times: songs from seven copyright cases. I’m adding Jimmy Forrest’s “Night Train.”
“Striking similarities” between commencement speeches
How likely is it that this commencement speech marks the first time the speechmaker has taken someone else’s words and ideas, made slight alterations, and presented the result as her own work?
Anticipatory plagiarism
Tracking down a “famous quote.”
Snopes and plagiarism
If you’re “rewording,” as students say, you’re plagiarizing.
Source sans attribution, attribution sans source
A double whammy, courtesy of student journalists.
Facades
Thinking about Brett Kavanaugh and the accusations against him makes me think of my encounters with two plagiarizing students. What can I say? My experiences as a teacher color everything I see.
WWRZS
“He’s an outlaw, Michael,” I imagined Rob saying. “He doesn’t care what you think of him.”
Dylan, Homer, and Cliff
CliffsNotes as a source for Dylan.
Words and bonds and borrowings
“Your word is your bond”: why aren’t those words a matter of plagiarism?
Orange Crate Art: Lend me your ears passages
Meredith McIver takes credit for plagiarism in Melania Trump’s speech.
It’s plagiarism
Melania Trump’s speech.
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New consequences for a plagiarizing editor.
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A plagiarism scandal, now with (minimal) consequences.
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The crossword plagiarism scandal continues.
Crosswords, copied
A plagiarism scandal.
Cartoon plagiarism
“How bad are you at editing that you couldn’t notice your ‘cartoonist’ has been wildly swinging from one style to another, like Tarzan on Red Bull?”
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Another college president plagiarizing?
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Did that college president plagiarize?
Another college president plagiarizing?
The incoming president of Virginia Wesleyan College.
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A second Minnesota college president has been accused of plagiarism.
Another college president plagiarizing?
The evidence looks pretty damning.
A value-added post
A commenter’s stunning account of one student’s Rogeting and the work needed to track it down.
Rogeting
That students could hope to succeed by means of such substitutions suggests that something is broken — in their understanding of how language works, and in their ability to imagine a reader’s response to their writing.
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The principal-plagiarizing-DFW story continues.
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DFW plagiarism.
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DFW plagiarism.