I don’t think a publication needs the “moral high ground” to report on something happening within its sphere of interest/influence.

...I’m going to eschew retreading the Grayson argument here (because I had it at length both when it happened, and for a couple of years following, and I’ve said all I intend to say), but…

I’m going to get a jersey just like that, except the number is going to be 21.

It used to be Jacksonville and the Panthers for me, but then “The Good Place” happened.

That was probably when I remembered them in those years.

The historical record will view the current administration with the same revulsion as we view Caligula.

I mean, you’re sorta really tipping your hand with this post.

...but it’s about ethics, amirite?

The Cardinals and the Panthers are the two teams that I just completely forget about every year. Once a year I will see one of them playing on TV and just think, “oh yeah, the Cardinals” and then won’t think about their existence again for another year.

You’re still paraphrasing, so you’d have to cite me if you’re using my sentence—and if you’re citing a quote within a quote (as in quoting me having quoted someone else), there would be an additional citation formation required.

So long as you’re adding your own analytical content afterward, you’re probably okay--but…

Yeah. I figure when they’re in the 101 level courses, they’re still very much kids (the traditional freshmen and the returning learners) relative to their familiarity with how academic writing works.

I give everyone three strikes. By the time that third strike rolls around, the student has demonstrated to me that not…

Damn--that sort of thing requires a spine of steel to try to pull.

When I was a TA in a Computer Science program I had someone deliver a photocopied assignment of another team. Kid you not, photocopied, you could see the very obvious photocopy lines on the sides and only the header/name page didn’t have it (headbang)

Even with citations, if the paper is one big block of paraphrasing, it may not run straight into “true” plagiarism territory, but it would likely fail most classes for lack of original academic analysis.

As long as you had your own responses to those ideas to go along with the citations (and kudos for using block quotes; trying to get Rhet/Comp 101 students to block a long quote—as opposed to letting it run on for a page’s worth of padding—is like pulling teeth sometimes), I think you did just fine.

There’s nothing…

If you are not citing the paper then yes it is. Its not your original work. 

Yup; I’m a professor of Rhet-Comp and Literature.

Before I answer the second part of your post, I want to say up front that I’m not casting moral judgment on you. I take plagiarism in my own classes as a personal insult—I regard it as the student telling me I’m not smart enough to catch them cheating. However, since…

I will be linking to this article (and the previous one) for my students during the fall semester when I cover the subject of plagiarism. I try to have a new “real-world” story for them every semester, to demonstrate that plagiarism has professional and legal consequences well beyond the academic sphere, and this one…

That was so weird. Maybe he plagiarized his non-apology video too.

There is almost NOTHING more satisfying to me than watching a self-sure shitbird refuse to acknowledge they’ve done anything wrong and then immediately lose everything.

“You can keep looking, Kotaku, and please let me know if you find anything,” he said in the video, setting off a chain of subsequent discoveries and accusations of dozens more instances of apparent plagiarism. Miucin has since removed the video from his YouTube channel.

I was wondering if this was the eventual outcome of this story. People who take shortcuts and lie rarely do it once.