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MichMan

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23. According to the Harvard Guide on Using Souces, it is taken extremely seriously.
Sat Dec 23, 2023, 12:25 PM
Dec 2023

"When you fail to cite your sources, or when you cite them inadequately, you are plagiarizing,
which is taken extremely seriously at Harvard. Plagiarism is defined as the act of either
intentionally OR unintentionally submitting work that was written by someone else.
If you turn
in a paper that was written by someone else, or if you turn in a paper in which you have included
material from any source without citing that source, you have plagiarized.
As you begin your
Harvard career, it's important to take the time to understand what constitutes plagiarism, why
plagiarism is considered such a serious offense, and how to avoid plagiarizing in your own
writing"

Citation: Avoiding Plagiarism under The Harvard Guide on Using Sources

Bold added for emphasis

Then we have this.....

"Students who, for whatever reason, submit work either not their own or without clear attribution
to its sources will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw
from the College"

Nowhere does it say, you are permitted to go back later and add the citations and quotes and all is forgiven


https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/sources/files/avoiding_plagiarism.pdf


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... Faux pas Dec 2023 #1
I wanna know where congress found the time to investigate this? LeftInTX Dec 2023 #2
If Republicans want a scandal, they will find it, or else conjure it out of thin air DFW Dec 2023 #3
But didn't most of their stuff involve a "someone or something in the Obama admin"? LeftInTX Dec 2023 #4
The so-called "Obama scandals," as I recall, involved him DFW Dec 2023 #5
They are private - but they receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year in federal funding FBaggins Dec 2023 #9
A Black woman? malaise Dec 2023 #6
Really NowISeetheLight Dec 2023 #7
Honestly Dorian Gray Dec 2023 #8
Harvard should offer her $100 million to step down MichMan Dec 2023 #10
Four hundred years after slavery? What? n/t Captain Stern Dec 2023 #11
The last living slave died in 1971 John Shaft Dec 2023 #12
That's what it sounds like Captain Stern Dec 2023 #14
If I were a student at Harvard, and was caught plagerizing even one paper, I would be removed from the school. SlimJimmy Dec 2023 #13
Would you be removed for Bettie Dec 2023 #15
According to the Harvard Guide on Using Souces, it is taken extremely seriously. MichMan Dec 2023 #23
It wasn't just omitting quotation marks, she also failed to cite the references whose words she used MichMan Dec 2023 #27
Change paragraph to paragraphs, and you'll be closer. SlimJimmy Dec 2023 #32
Harvard determined that she did not plagiarize. yardwork Dec 2023 #18
Harvard contradicted their own policy which I posted above MichMan Dec 2023 #24
She was accused by the actual persons she plagerized from. I'd say that's pretty damning. SlimJimmy Dec 2023 #31
There was ForgedCrank Dec 2023 #16
Congress should be in no way involved Sympthsical Dec 2023 #17
Harvard investigated and determined that it wasn't plagiarism, though. yardwork Dec 2023 #19
I recommend reading McWhorter's op-ed in the NYT Sympthsical Dec 2023 #21
An example of the insane level of antisemitism on campuses can be found here: yardwork Dec 2023 #22
There's this fantastic interview Sympthsical Dec 2023 #25
This is so infuriating. yardwork Dec 2023 #26
We all know this isn't about plagiarism, right? WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2023 #20
This is so frickin silly maxrandb Dec 2023 #28
Let's stop with the plagiarism bullshit Doc Sportello Dec 2023 #29
She is toast SarahD Dec 2023 #30
I haven't been a PhD candidate to compare - Ms. Toad Dec 2023 #33
If plagiarism is that common with faculty, they have no right to hold their students to a different standard then MichMan Dec 2023 #34
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