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– Nelson Mandela

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Case Study 2 (2)

Case Study 2 (2)

Q Instructions: Read the two articles here (plus your additional document) and answer the following questions (or whatever else you want to write related to these articles). Remember, if what I have given you isn't enough to get to three pages then you need to find things about the article on your own to talk about. 1 - do you see a difference between the two situations? 2 - look at the paraphrasing examples from the novel (there are many, many more on the wikipedia page for the novel, which you can also look at), do they all seem like real plagiarism to you? If not, which ones don't and why? 3 - do you believe that the novelist honestly didn't intend to copy anything? 4 - what would you do if you were her publisher? 5- follow the link to the senator's paper where you can see all the quoted/paraphrased material without citation. This is insane. And it was only discovered because he decided he wanted to run for office and so the media had a reason to look through his previous academic work. Does that mean the moral here is "don't plagiarize" or "if you do plagiarize and don't get caught (which you will in this class, don't try it) keep a low enough profile that no one looks into it"? 6 - there's no question the senator plagiarized. Do you think this was the first time he did it? Why or why not. 7 - the school revoked his degree, years after he thought he had gotten away with it. Unlike in law, school decisions don't have any statute of limitations - they could have done this 50 years after he got the degree. Can someone ever be fully confident that their misdeeds will not catch up to them? The two articles are as follows:

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Fresh passages in the novel by a Harvard sophomore, whose book was pulled from stores last week after she acknowledged plagiarizing portions of it, appear to be copied from a second author. At least three portions in the book, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," byKaavya Viswanathan, bear striking similarities to writing in "Can You Keep a Secret?," a chick-lit novel by Sophie Kinsella. The New York Times was alerted to the similarities by a phone call from a reader.