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Skills and Strategies | Understanding Plagiarism in a Digital Age – NYTimes.com
Who Can, Who Should Teach Writing?
My transition from public high school English teacher to university assistant professor overlapped with my university debating and then voting to change its core curriculum and academic calendar.
I sat in many contentious faculty meetings mostly listening as faculty held forth about the pros and cons of both the established core/calendar and the proposed core/calendar. One thing that I witnessed was that faculty are quite protective of their own disciplines—but are apt to step carelessly on disciplines outside their area of expertise.
For example, the faculty were considering dropping the traditional first-year composition approach that is taught exclusively by English faculty for a first-year seminar approach that allowed and required faculty across all disciplines to teach the writing-intensive seminars for first year students.
As someone who taught high school English for almost twenty years—most of that time spent learning the complex craft of teaching writing through trial-and-error and dedicating much of…
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Plagiarism and Idea Theft
What Does “Teaching Writing” Mean?
The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges Pulitzer winner. Lefty hero. Plagiarist.
The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges Pulitzer winner. Lefty hero. Plagiarist.
Christopher Ketcham
New Republic
Advice on Writing, Trish Roberts-Miller
Advice on Writing, Trish Roberts-Miller
