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June 30, 2005
Plagiarism sources
Google Scholar as an ancillary to Turnitin. . . .
Another administrator deep-sixed for plagiarism. Oh—and another.
Coaches plagiarize, too.
And me, I just feel sickened. It's so disheartening to track all this media hooraw about plagiarism, with so little constructive work being done to teach people how to write from sources. For the plagiarism furor to be gathering even more steam at the same time that the SAT is inevitably pushing secondary teachers away from teaching source-based writing and toward teaching five-paragraph impromptu themes is just hard to take.
Pedagogy and learning aren't sexy; sin and discipline are. Sin and discipline—plagiarism, plagiarist-catching, and the regulation of students—these are what sell. These are where the dollars go. Do I sound just too, too gloomy? Check it out: Some people pay to cheat and others pay to catch cheaters, all while universities are scaling back tenure-line positions in favor of a temporary, and cheaper, workforce. Damn. It's frustrating, how small and isolated my contributions to the integrity and joy of teaching and learning are.
Posted by senioritis at June 30, 2005 09:16 PM