David Mikkelson, co-founder of Snopes, turns out to be a serial plagiarist.
Mikkelson’s acknowledgement of “multiple serious copyright violations of content that Snopes didn’t have rights to use” is a tad disingenuous. Using text without permission might be a copyright violation. Putting your own name on that text is plagiarism. Putting your name on a slightly altered version of that text: that, too, is plagiarism.
If you’re “rewording,” as students say, you’re plagiarizing.
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[I always mistype plagiarism as plagiairism. I am nothing if not consistent.]
Friday, August 13, 2021
Snopes and plagiarism
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"nothing is new under the sun" is there anything that has not been re-hashed retold? Answer "in your own words".
See what William H. Chace says about plagiarism: “The arguments protecting or even championing plagiarism fall before the palpable evidence of originality, modest and grand, ephemeral and enduring, as it has existed in writing everywhere.” Writers are writing their own words every day.
That news is like something out of Snopes!
"Is this original?"
Nope.
That is a beautiful quote, Michael!
Blog-worthy then and now. : )
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