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In reply to the discussion: HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY [View all]Sympthsical
(10,729 posts)About the value of doing one's own work?
Let's go with acknowledgements as my personal number one because it's so stupid and so, so hilarious. Who does that?
Lifting entire paragraphs without quotation or citation in her dissertation is pretty bad (the Voss/Palmquist parts stand out). That would immediately kill an assignment for me with a professor. It would be an instant fail. Full stop. If you leave out quotes, maybe - people screw up while writing and miss things in editing. It happens. If you leave out quotes and it's not in your citations? You are failing that assignment with my professors. And it was her dissertation.
A university president should not have done what I myself wouldn't dream of doing, because I know I'd be risking my academic career.
But people are all mad she got caught. Ok. Be mad.
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