A Dialogue on Plagiarism

Abstract

That may be part of it, but it's not a satisfactory answer. There are lots of other serious academic vices around: arrogance, carelessness, laziness. Yet we don't contemplate punishing them. We let them take their toll in the quality of the student's work, and then we evaluate the work as we find it. But with plagiarism we seem to want to go beyond evaluation and impose some active penalty. Just returning the paper and entering an incomplete isn't enough. Maybe our outrage is against the theft involved.

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