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RE: Elitism and Snobbery - 6/18/2006 9:25:30 AM

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I have never seen a student called on plagiarism for doing such as MC did. I went fairly much full time for 6 yrs to two different colleges. I have seen many papers marked down for improper citing or failing to cite as long as it was not an attempt to use other people's words without attribution these instances were used as learning experiences. I have done it accidently myself once, setting off a quote, putting in a number that was supposed to correspond with the bibliography, and then somehow it did not end up there when the paper was turned in. It happens. Hell, it even happens to publishers where there are typo mistakes, and then they have to reprint the material. Mistakes are not plagiarism.

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RE: Elitism and Snobbery - 6/18/2006 10:16:15 AM

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All right, I don't agree with you, julia, but look: if he had simply stated right away that he made a mistake and then corrected it, I would have had a very different attitude about this. Instead, he pretended that I was making a personal attack on him. How can I make a personal attack on him when I don't even know who he is?

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RE: Elitism and Snobbery - 6/18/2006 10:16:26 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Noah

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

Got a source for that? Copying someone else's work without indicating the source is called plagiarism.

Edited to add: Don't bother, I found the source.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottish-19th/

Let's see, you know where to find the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and know about the Scottish Enlightenment, and have never heard of the concept of plagiarism? What planet are you from?

Oh come on, Lam. It was set apart in italics. It didn't give me the impression of an attempt at anything but providing a handy snippet, to use Davies' happy phrase. Did you honestly think he was trying to get one over on you or are you just busting his balls?

We're all sitting around a table with the same book open (the net) and the same research assistant to to the scut work for us (Google.) In my opinion Mr. Cleaver posted as scrupulously as the medium warrants by quoting verbatim and typographically drawing attention to the quote as such.

By the way, did you take that snapshot of the elephants?

Good question!!

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RE: Elitism and Snobbery - 6/18/2006 10:25:08 AM

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Lam, was your little tirade worth digressing from an otherwise interesting thread? I think not. Take some Zanax or something. These are forum posts, not peer-reviewed research articles.

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RE: Elitism and Snobbery - 6/18/2006 6:33:33 PM

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I went overboard, but I see this too often and don't believe a long-time user of Collarme can really be in the dark about how to use text from other websites.

How many times are people going to ask about the fucking elephants? I've answered that question like ten times already.

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