{"id":377,"date":"2005-08-12T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T18:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=377"},"modified":"2010-08-11T19:53:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T23:53:03","slug":"plagiarism-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Plagiarism disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief entry: Margaret Soltan today <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretsoltan.phenominet.com\/2005\/08\/you-rock-my-book-wow.html\">discussed the plagiarism<\/a> by Judith Kelly in her &#8220;memoir&#8221; <cite>Rock Me Gently<\/cite>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Again with the uncontrollable memory! What shall we call this? Incontinent mnemonism?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, yes, the &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t aware I was copying words&#8221; excuse I&#8217;ve heard a few times from some of my enrollees (which is different from the &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t aware that copying words was plagiarism&#8221; excuse).  (I wouldn&#8217;t call a plagiarist a student.)  I think I have a slightly better term: eideticitis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hint to the budding enrolled plagiarist: you might get away with explaining that half a sentence just stuck in your memory.  Half a page?  Nah&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Hint to the budding professional plagiarist: If your excuse wouldn&#8217;t pass muster with a college professor, don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll sound better coming from you.<\/li>\n<li>Hint to the caught-red-handed professional plagiarist named Judith Kelly: Getting your representative to say that you are &#8220;rewriting those passages for the next edition of the book&#8221; sort of puts the lie to the claim that the book is a memoir, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief entry: Margaret Soltan today discussed the plagiarism by Judith Kelly in her &#8220;memoir&#8221; Rock Me Gently: Again with the uncontrollable memory! What shall we call this? Incontinent mnemonism? Ah, yes, the &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t aware I was copying words&#8221; excuse I&#8217;ve heard a few times from some of my enrollees (which is different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-65","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}