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Ira Lightman
@iralightman
maths storyteller, poet, maker of public art, plagiarism sleuth, PhD truther, of a decent basis, truth wilful outlier
Jan 5, 2019 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
What supervisors and examiners can miss in a PhD is academic plagiarism: when a candidate quotes a source near-verbatim, and, by failing to put quote marks, has it mistaken for their own phrasing. Even if a sentence nearby shows that they've read it and know it's an influence /1 Far worse is when a near-verbatim phrase shows up without quote marks and WITHOUT A SOURCE /2