Did I claim to be an unrecognized genius?

I haven’t changed my original statement in the slightest. My original statement was that I often find plagiarism like this, despite warning students that it tends to get found out. I have repeated that this is all I said as you have tried to make my original statement mean a lot of things that it doesn’t and as you’ve…

Seriously. Some of you I like, some of you I don’t like, many of you I just don’t have super specific feelings about at all—exact same goes for all my liberal students. What I’m trying to do is give basic lessons about successful persuasion that can apply to anyone of most political stripes. Like, I’m trying to help…

Other frequent college writing teacher here. It sounds like our subjects and methods are very similar; my intensive focus is always on evidentiary framing and logical support rather than assessing what is objectively true/false, I choose liberal and conservative source material that I expect to be seriously engaged…

No, democratic socialism is a socialist economy administrated by a democratic political structure. A socialist economy is grounded in principles of collective ownership of economic engines and worker determination of how they are used. So the various Communist states of history had socialist economies, but they…

It’s really not. See, if you had made it through high school, you’d know that sometimes writers break formal rules in order to produce an effect. Or maybe you did get through high school, and so you do know that, but you’re still dumb enough to think you look smart when you pretend that you can’t grasp stylistic…

If you really can’t tell the difference between ignorance of grammatical rules and intentional deviation from grammatical rules in order to produce a specific effect, then you need to go back to the ninth grade, where every teacher ever anywhere went over the fact that sometimes writers break the rules for a reason.

Right, and my point being that when I said that I find this kind of plagiarism all the time, I was saying that I find the source material that they plagiarized from, so I don’t have suspicion—I have demonstrable facts.

Well, someone shouldn’t bring accusations without having found the source text and laying the copied material side by side. This article basically does it right, and when I say I find this sort of plagiarism all the time, I mean I can do the same. It’s the difference between evidence and suspicion.

But it also doesn’t…

Well, you shouldn’t bring plagiarism accusations if you haven’t found the source text, as the article above does. And when I say I see this plagiarism all the time, I mean I have the copied material in front of me. Otherwise, you haven’t found plagiarism; you just have suspicions. That said, if that’s the greatest…

12/10, A++.

I’ve never had one that dumb, though I did have a friend with a student who plagiarized Kant in an essay on moral philosophy. And it wasn’t even paraphrase plagiarism, but a straight up cut-and-lift of multiple paragraphs.

That’s the thing about paraphrase plagiarisms (the industry term)! As long as you have your own ideas commenting on what the source said, the paper can be good. People just have to learn to either quote the sentence, or else put the paraphrase into their own syntax. Of course, a lot of the time people do it because if…

Yeah, correct. But formal writing is different than comments on blogs, it turns out.

Hmm. Granted, I’m attuned to read for copied structure with synonyms swapped in, because I’m an English teacher and I’m trying to drub the habit out of my students. But still, I see this kind of plagiarism in major blog articles all the time, including various GMG blogs on several occasions. A lot of the time, they…

Oh, man. College writing teacher here. You get this all, the, time. And it looks just like the examples in this article. No matter how much you tell people that a professional writer’s syntax is really obviously different from a college student’s, someone will still think you won’t notice if they just break out a…

I get “most popular,” if that means among consumers, because IPAs have always been the top-selling style of craft brew and maybe always will be. I got stuck on “most exciting style of craft brew right now,” though. (And I think that was what OP meant, but he didn’t have to be a dick about it).

....and yet you wrote a rebuttal to the comment you admit you didn’t understand? You are an interesting person, who is impressively skilled at the density of self-contradicting nonsense you can achieve in a short comment, the extent of which I’ve neither the time nor the inclination to unpack. Have a good day.

I honestly have no idea what you’re trying to say.

Oh, I absolutely agree with this. I don’t think anti-indigenous racism changed much, if at all, between the 1870s and 1930s. My points being: 1) settlers being in active war with indigenous people doesn’t explain the racism if it persisted for a half century until well after the war was active or the people were…