Two articles from Business Insider — 1, 2 — document plagiarism in the MIT dissertation of Neri Oxman, identified as “Bill Ackman’s celebrity academic wife.” Ackman is of course the Harvard alumnus who pushed for Claudine Gay’s resignation as Harvard’s president. Oxman’s sources include Wikipedia artices.
Here’s one example:
Wikipedia: “By spacing the warp more closely, it can completely cover the weft that binds it, giving a warpfaced textile.”
Oxman: “By spacing the warp more closely, it can completely cover the weft that binds it, giving a warp faced textile.”
Notice that as she plagiazed, Oxman left the dangling particple uncorrected. And she clumsily miscorrected warpfaced by splitting it into two unhyphenated words. Gotta wonder sometimes who bothers to read the dissertations and theses they’re signing off on.
For her part Oxman has acknowledged mistakes and will ask MIT to make “any necessary corrections.” And Acknan says that “Part of what makes [Oxman] human is that she makes mistakes, owns them, and apologizes when appropriate.”
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Adorable Mistake: “singing off on”.
I picture the readers singing that Wikipedia but. 😄
Frex = Fresca
Gah! I caught a typo in dissertations, and — I swear — I looked at singing just to make sure I had it right. Again, gah! (Now corrected.)
I invariably mistype plagiarism as plagiairism, so I think writing/typing something about it begets other typos. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
but she didn't own them until someone pointed it out! and to be fair nor did gay. better to find it yourself and correct before someone else points it out.
as someone who has written 5 slim books for an organization i was so cognizant of plagiarism.
kirsten
Oxman’s blithe attitude (I’ll have MIT correct it) and Ackman’s hypocrisy are pretty stunning.
I usually had at least one case of plagiarism every semester, no matter the policy on my syllabus, no matter the reminder that went out with each written assignment. And I've been plagiarized at least three times. I’m reluctant to give anyone a pass, and certainly not someone well advanced in academic study.
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