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As a professor, my most controversial position was that I didn't care at all about plagiarism. a) they at least found some material b) it was probably better written than most of what I received c) privileging "originality" is a very bougie and culturally insensitive position
I would of course explain to plagiarist that others would take a harder line, and that the lives of some academics were so tied up with pedantic notions of citation that they wouldn't hesitate to destroy a life over a forgotten footnote
All too often this was used as a way to expel southeast Asian, African, and Eastern European students, and that angered me
The western tradition is pretty much built on plagiarism. So much of the work of Jerome and the other "church fathers" was just them writing down shit they'd memorized. Some of their most famous medieval work was people "glossing" the earlier work of others (much of it borrowed)
"Plagiarism" in this culture's current sense of the term, I mean. So many others wouldn't have recognized it as such. Privileging "ownership of ideas" the way we do now is truly fascinating
I’ve moved to the position that I’m not going to make anyone’s life hard unless it’s clear to me that there’s an intent to deceive me. A citation error? That could as easily be on me as on the student. I give them the same talk, but with a focus on “how do we fix this?”
Yeah, that's fine
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