Completely Unnecessary

I was beating myself up earlier today because I promised myself that I would stop looking for references for my thesis and, you know, actually read them. And then I added at least six more…

I’m currently cruising at over 60 references, and will probably only need about 30 of them.

So what about this feels good?

I just started reading this woman’s Masters thesis that I found via Google Scholar, and I totally caught her plagiarizing! Plagiarizing, in fact, one of the other references I read tonight, Devitt (1999)!

It was a hard to locate reference, I know, but she could have at least changed the wording a wee bit more.

Busted!

Luckily, she’s graduated, and I don’t really care that much.

And really, her writing is more shocking than the stealing. If her uni let her pass, a little bit of plagiarism clearly wasn’t going to make the difference.

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