Re:Neri Oxman reportedly plagiarized undergrad thesis of stu...
by ethanbond on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @05:16PM
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Every example I saw of Gay’s plagiarism actually directly cited the work she pulled from, she just didn’t put quotations around them. There was no way you’d read the passages and not understand where the ideas came from, you’d just have thought Gay rephrased them, which she didn’t.
Maybe there were other more egregious examples I didn’t see, but that seems like an editing or style error more than what I’d consider plagiarism.
(Obviously students, who are being assessed directly on the writing itself, have very rigid requirements they need to meet)
Eg, was it a key original idea central to the work's thesis, in which they may have stolen someone else's breakthrough insight? Was it an important bit of supporting information, but not a core part of the thesis? Or was it background/extraneous stuff that's not really important?