Monday, August 11, 2008

Oh, Laws

I don't know what's sadder here: that McCain ('s speechwriters) plagiarized his speech; that it was plagiarized from Wikipedia; or that most of the tools commenting on this site don't seem to know what plagiarism is -- they seem to think it's something like "stealing facts."

It's no wonder our students don't know what plagiarism is - neither does 7/10ths of the country, apparently.

(Via Unfogged)
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3 comments:

tonkelu said...

Completely off topic (and snarky and not at all nice): am I the only one that keeps waiting for a demonic King George to pop out of McCain's left cheek jowl? I'm just saying...

11:18 PM
sugaredharpy said...

No, they have no clue. Yes, that's it, they think it's "stealing facts" instead of giving proper credit. They also don't get, you know, that I expect them to think about it before using the information instead of parroting.

And ohmylands, WIKIPEDIA?

1:05 PM
delagar said...

I think that's my favorite part -- that McCain's staff is so off the map about the internets that (a) they don't realize half the country will recognize a Wikipedia article when they hear it parroted back to them and (b) that's the *best* source they can find (no doubt it kept coming up on The Google).

10:01 AM

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