Writes Jonathan Bailey, in Plagiarism Today.
Using a reputable plagiarism detection service, check the work yourself. Such checks take only minutes to perform and usually cost between $25 and $100 depending on the specific service and length of the book...
Or hire a professional, such as Bailey himself, who warns you that he's expensive.
Bailey describes an instance of a celebrity doctor who'd written many books and got into plagiarism trouble. The publisher moved the blame onto an assistant who was not listed as a co-author. This person took "complete responsibility for any errors."
There's a lot of ghostwriting out there — including A.I. — but when will it improve your reputation to say the ghostwriter did it?
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There is no Constitutional prohibition against copying your PhD dissertation from Wikipedia ~ Jonathan Turley (/s)
Maybe the Gay lady should have tried that technique!
Where politically congruent classes and interests intersect as first-order forcings of progressive conflict.
Certifications from Harvard et al in the era or woke are now (no pun intended) suspect, and likely not viable on a forward-looking basis. What a "burden"... uh, burden.
Surely by now someone has checked "art of the deal" for plagiarism, right?
Since donald trump never claimed to have actually written it, why would he be responsible if there were any? I would assume that the contract put the onus for any plagiarism on the writer.
John Henry
How about Hilary books?
Might be interesting to run "the book that I wrote" through a plagiarism checker.
John Henry
The dog ate my ghostwriter.
People aren't outsourcing their writing. They're outsourcing their thinking. They are literally surrendering 95% of their agency thinking the 5% is profound while forgetting the secret sauce is in the details. It's in the human imagination.
No one can best describe my thoughts and my ideas except me. No computer will ever be able to do that, and if it could I will kill it like Michael Bolton killed that retarded printer in Office Space.
The dog plagiarized my homework
And when you use a ghostbuster you need to check for slime.
I'm astounded by the fact that there is actually a website called Plagiarism Today!
Plagiarism Today. Heh.
Sort of like The Journal of Irreproducible Results.
Universities should start requiring all dissertation submitters to also provide proof that they have run a plagiarism test on their work and provide the results. It’s apparently cheap and easy. It would not guarantee there is no plagiarism, but it would help. Universities don’t need the headache plagiarizers cause.
Alternatively, you could just make up your own sh*t instead of copying other people's work.
The stuff she plagiarized was targeted to undermine it. The woman who wrote it came to the conclusion that affirmative action should be class based rather than race based, and Gay wanted to divorce her research from that conclusion, which had she credited the original author, she would necessarily have brought that unwelcome idea into play.
Plagiarism today, plagiarism tomorrow, plagiarism forever.
I love that there's a journalistic endeavor called "Plagiarism Today."
I'm on the lookout for similar enterprises. I'm thinking... "Insurrection Today"... "Inclusiveness Today"...
The Plague of Plagiarism.
"I'm on the lookout for similar enterprises. I'm thinking... "Insurrection Today"... "Inclusiveness Today"
Vegan Leather Harnesses Today
"Apocalypse Today."
My favorite one is “Nostalgia Today,” which I may have seen in a bagel shop in Florida, or may have imagined. At my age, I am no longer sure.
Narciso may know more about Claudine Gay's family in Haiti. Her father and uncle were able to attend fancy schools and universities at a time when most Haitians got no education at all. That tells me they were probably fairly well-off creoles and probably involved in Haitian politics and shenanigans in general.
Billions of dollars were sent to Haiti after the earthquake, mostly through the Clinton Foundation. Something like 5-10% of it actually went to help victims.
It would be interesting for someone do do some diggging into Gay's family background see what comnnection, if any, they had to the Clintons and how much, if any, of the money flowed to them.
BTW: I found a Haitian expat group website that confirms that Gay was born and is still a citizen of Haiti. US citizen too, of course, having been born here.
John Henry
Bill Ackman is really pissed now. He is a petit billionaire (@4bn net worth) and can afford to exact revenge.
Someone else noted that Buisness Insider ran a story about his wife plagiarizing a paragrapg from Wikipedia in her MIT dissertation. They called him at 5PM for comment, said they were running the story that evening and would he like to comment. They ran the story 2 hours later without giving him a reasonable chance to comment. Oh well, that's journalism, that's Business Insider.
He went on X and announced that he is putting together a team to check every paper written by every MIT faculty for plagiarism and will publish the results as found. Someone suggested that he do the same for Business Insider and he said "Done. Added to the list"
Lots of responses offering to help, so it may have some legs. Even without help, throwing a lot of money at it should do wht trick.
He has already discovered that the president(?) of MIT has been funding his wife's foundation with MIT donor funds in a way that violates some tax laws to the extent of potential loss of tax exemption for MIT as an institution. He wrote a long X article explaining it. TLDR the whole thing but what I did read looks like someone did their homework. He has, or will, file a formal complaint to the IRS.
I think this is a wonderful idea
Sounds like MIT/Business Insider fucked around and is going to find out.
It is also the kind of thing that could be crowdsourced and crowdfunded for faculty at other universities.
John "Hoping for a snowball effect" Henry
Bill Ackman is really pissed now. He is a petit billionaire (@4bn net worth) and can afford to exact revenge.
Someone else noted that Buisness Insider ran a story about his wife plagiarizing a paragrapg from Wikipedia in her MIT dissertation. They called him at 5PM for comment, said they were running the story that evening and would he like to comment. They ran the story 2 hours later without giving him a reasonable chance to comment. Oh well, that's journalism, that's Business Insider.
He went on X and announced that he is putting together a team to check every paper written by every MIT faculty for plagiarism and will publish the results as found. Someone suggested that he do the same for Business Insider and he said "Done. Added to the list"
Lots of responses offering to help, so it may have some legs. Even without help, throwing a lot of money at it should do wht trick.
He has already discovered that the president(?) of MIT has been funding his wife's foundation with MIT donor funds in a way that violates some tax laws to the extent of potential loss of tax exemption for MIT as an institution. He wrote a long X article explaining it. TLDR the whole thing but what I did read looks like someone did their homework. He has, or will, file a formal complaint to the IRS.
I think this is a wonderful idea
Sounds like MIT/Business Insider fucked around and is going to find out.
It is also the kind of thing that could be crwodsourced and crowdfunded for faculty at other universities.
John Hoping for a snowball effect Henry
If you put your name on a book someone else has written, that's plagiarism. So pretty much any book written by a politician or celebrity.
Plagiarism Today. Best periodical title ever.
I'd make my students write by hand in the classroom. Some students liked it. Most acted as if I was torturing them. Others (plural) complained to the department.
I could probably edit Banality Quarterly.
Fine, I'll play:
A plethora of plagiarism.
I thought after Dors Kearns Goodwin, we'd all agreed that plagarism is no big whoop. You just blame it on the "researchers".
While plagarism may get you in trouble, just making shit up may win you a National Book award in History.
So, if you want to cut corners due some risk/reward analysis.
Test review by computer program has been possible since at least 1988, when I was a GA Tech postdoc writing grant proposals. A Tech English professor with a computer wrote a program that analyzed the word use of grants, allowing him to test successful grant applications against unsuccessful ones to study hypothetical grant structures that should succeed in getting funding. We used this to hone our group's grant proposal before submittal. We were successful in obtaining a grant. With a few tweaks, the prof also made his program compare texts, looking for similarities ofstructure and duplication of words and phrases between two texts.
That all published texts purporting to be original are not subjected to plagiarism tests by currently available software and databases of published works beggars belief, because the ONLY reasons not to do so are self-serving.
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