'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Oh -- as usual -- dear.
I've just been informed that someone "borrowed" a paragraph of my (original) writing for a short story, and subsequently has won a large cash prize and trip to a writing workshop.
I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that, or how the hell I'm supposed to react.
I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that, or how the hell I'm supposed to react.
shrift smash?
Imagine how satisfying it will be to turn them in.
Shrift, I think you should let the prize committee know.
David, you are a charming liar. I mean that in the best way.
I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that, or how the hell I'm supposed to react.
Pissed off. Bust them.
Imagine how satisfying it will be to turn them in.
No, the person who borrowed it is telling me, and asking me what I would like to do. High school student.
Which, well.
This is a very odd way to achieve validation.
the person who borrowed it is telling me
Huh? Did they have a flash of conscience or what?
No, the person who borrowed it is telling me, and asking me what I would like to do. High school student.
It's time to learn the hard lessons about plagerism.
Um... shouldn't the telling/asking happen *before* submitting the story? I'd want a cut of the prize money. A substantial cut.
As an academic who teaches, and who has never had a semester without a student "borrowing", I think that the student needs to come clean to the prize committee.
My Dean of Students has tried to convince me that students of today don't know they aren't supposed to cut and paste from the Internet, I should feel sorry for the poor ignorant students, and they should be forgiven. I am not a believer.
I'd tell them they need to refuse the prize and withdraw from the workshop, and then you'll let it rest. Otherwise, you call the committee and I'll bet the consequences are a lot more far reaching.