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Hi all - the TurnInIt tweet thread about #1776Report is blowing up in a way I never could have expected, so, some context/clarifications:
1. The % score for TurnItIn doesn't necessarily mean anything definitive. You have to still check everything that is highlighted. 1/
1. The % score for TurnItIn doesn't necessarily mean anything definitive. You have to still check everything that is highlighted. 1/
2. One thing that gets tagged a lot is direct quotation. Papers with any quotes usually get tagged for plagiarism. With proper citation, this is fine and normal! The 1776 report did not include any citations. 2/
3. The rest of the % is usually comprised of small common phrases (usually these don't mean anything) and sometimes longer passages. This is where we usually detect plagiarism. 3/
This report's reductive, revisionist, and racist idolatry is exactly why I come down so hard on approaches to the humanities that use similar strategies even if they adjust the content and make it "centrist" or "apolitical"
The construction of the past is always political. Claiming otherwise is political.
sententiaeantiquae.com/2021/01/11/sav…
sententiaeantiquae.com/2021/01/11/sav…
Hoo, boy! This cacata carta makes all sorts of squishy claims about founding fathers feeling bad about slavery, equates progressivism with relativism (on a walk towards fascism and communism) and claims that the only
"authentic education" includes "moral education" (41)
"authentic education" includes "moral education" (41)
