Buffy ,'Help'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
I don't include the "I will CUT you" part, but I do include the rest of it. Because some of them do plagiarize.
It always amazes me that people (a) don't realize how easy it is to find out if something's plagiarized and/or (b) don't see anything wrong with it.
don't see anything wrong with it.
I wonder if some of that is the "nothing on the Internet is private" thing.
I've had several students hand in things that were copied directly from the textbook we use in class.
Wow, Hil. That's ballsy.
How about the people who lift entire books and pass them off as their own? or remember the Cassie Edwards flap of several years ago? she'd been lifting sections of books, magazines, etc., and just dropping them into her books. When this became public she said something to the effect that she'd always considered that research.
There was that guy recently who lifted a whole bunch of spy thrillers, including James Bond. But he couldn't claim research. He was even more thorough in his plagiarism than Cassie. About whom I will always talk trash when she comes up on IO9, and I know I'm not the only one--it's kinda funny.
This guy, ita ! [link]
I admit to skipping the article and going directly to the first comment, which pretty much rocks.
I started reading the article, and it's quite stunning. However, the first comment is flat out good.
And that's a big difference.
Good gravy. From that plagiarism confession and the comments, I got to his father's website (he's an author) and found this quote in an interview he did about his book My Last Days:
Self-pity is a crucial aspect of American masculinity.
--That's the kind of generalization you begin with in satire. I try to go "inside" Supe a bit, while parodying the confessional that's so popular, popular because of our endless need to heal and fix ourselves in public, to substitute moments of titillation for lives of sympathy and growth. Supe's trapped in that erzatz self-help cult (not culture.) So his biggest revelations about his inner child can be funny while sad....
(further odd side note: Quentin did the illustrations for the book, and was also present for that interview. )
eta also, $20 says frequent QR defender "Dana" (on more than one website) is a sock puppet.