Comments on: Spend a minute pecking on your keyboard. Nail a plagiarist http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/03/spend-a-minute-pecking-on-your-keyboard-nail-a-plagiarist/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:58:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: srubin http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/03/spend-a-minute-pecking-on-your-keyboard-nail-a-plagiarist/#comment-16608 srubin Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:57:43 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/03/spend-a-minute-pecking-on-your-keyboard-nail-a-plagiarist/#comment-16608 Here's some hunting for you: M. Thomas Eisenstadt just blogged about how it may have been Jeffrey Hart himself who was also plagiarizing. If Goeglein hadn't also lifted from 27 other sources, Hart wouldn't have minded. But it turns out he may have lifted from a Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Callahan. Eisenstadt writes about it here: http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/2008/03/05/the-goeglein-mystery-continues-scandal-at-dartmouth/ I think Mr. Eisenstadt might want that glowing review now :) Here’s some hunting for you: M. Thomas Eisenstadt just blogged about how it may have been Jeffrey Hart himself who was also plagiarizing. If Goeglein hadn’t also lifted from 27 other sources, Hart wouldn’t have minded. But it turns out he may have lifted from a Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Callahan. Eisenstadt writes about it here:

http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/2008/03/05/the-goeglein-mystery-continues-scandal-at-dartmouth/

I think Mr. Eisenstadt might want that glowing review now :)

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/03/spend-a-minute-pecking-on-your-keyboard-nail-a-plagiarist/#comment-16575 Dan Klarmann Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:22:54 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/03/03/spend-a-minute-pecking-on-your-keyboard-nail-a-plagiarist/#comment-16575 Teachers have it tough, though. Through students using internet-trolled papers. There are services that help teachers detect lifted prose. But clever students can take entire papers, run them through a thesaurus process, and make it very hard to prove that their "work" is not original. The untrained mind is a lazy instrument. It will always find the easiest answer. Plagiarism is a symptom. What is easier than repeating what is quickly found? But enough about Creationist ideology. Teachers have it tough, though. Through students using internet-trolled papers. There are services that help teachers detect lifted prose. But clever students can take entire papers, run them through a thesaurus process, and make it very hard to prove that their “work” is not original.

The untrained mind is a lazy instrument. It will always find the easiest answer. Plagiarism is a symptom. What is easier than repeating what is quickly found? But enough about Creationist ideology.

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