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<b>Narrowing the Options: What Kind of Plagiarist is Nick Gier?</b><br>
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Now comes the backpeddling and hypocrisy, which is the point of my
exercise. Intolerista double-standards are as shameless as they are
hilarious -- obvious to all but themselves.<br>
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Well. . . we hear, Nick's plagiarism didn't involve money -- except we
forget he was paid to teach this class at the UofI (Wilson never got
royalties from his booklet).<br>
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Oh, Nick's plagiarism wasn't disseminated to anyone -- except UI
students and the whole internet.<br>
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Oh, Nick's notes never involve citations, they're just reminders --
except if you look at his other notes, plenty of citations.<br>
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Oh, Nick's plagiarism is petty and trivial -- except we've been told
it's a matter of principle not quantity.<br>
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Oh, Nick is a scholar, he always cites the source in the lecture itself
-- except that's what Steve Wilkins said, too.<br>
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Nick himself says his "lifting" (his word) was just of something small
like a list of Bible books or a single word "alas" -- except that's
not true: look at the example -- someone else's opening wording,
unattributed -- so now plagiarism doesn't count if it's just a
short-short theft from another author.<br>
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Imagine a UofI student saying he "only" lifted one sentence ("and just
ignore my other copying and pasting"). <br>
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Nick's own criterion is to "condemn the use of authors' words without
proper attribution" -- with no limits on length, income, or medium. I'm
just asking Nick to live up to his own vaunted principle. That's not
asking too much. Where is the condemnation? <br>
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Nick now admits "lifting" the passage in question; it wasn't even an
editing mistake. He's ruled out, then, two of the five kinds of
plagiarist in his list. So the question remains: what kind of
plagiarist is Nick Gier? <br>
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Doug Jones<br>
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