Stealing someone’s words isn’t the same as stealing someone’s television. The original author doesn’t have to run to Best Buy to get a new paragraph.
But ideas and words are professors’ stock and trade. Unlike the company president who steals sentences for a Rotary Club speech, or the congressman who pilfers phrases for a campaign brochure, the professor who plagiarizes undermines his very profession. —Bartlett and Smallwood —Four Academic Plagiarists You’ve Never Heard Of: How Many More Are Out There? (Chronicle)
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Wow! That is some disturbing stuff! Especially with the professor who was able to continue doing his plagiarism for 30 some years! That’s just awful! How does something like that get missed for so long?