http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/ Hard Times Come Again No More Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:25:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/comment-page-1/#comment-510 danajohnhill.org | Say It Isn’t So, Part 2 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:08:16 +0000 http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/#comment-510 [...] year I wrote about one of my literature professors who was implicated in a plagiarism scandal.  Professor [...] [...] year I wrote about one of my literature professors who was implicated in a plagiarism scandal.  Professor [...]

]]> http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Virginia Postrel Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:36:10 +0000 http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/#comment-274 You're right that Twitchell certainly has the brains to do his own work, but it's a lot faster to swipe other people's work without credit if you're trying to churn out a book a year. See my blog, http://www.dynamist.com/weblog, for more details, and do follow the Google Books link on his truly egregious "borrowing" from Grant McCracken, who is a much more brilliant thinker. You’re right that Twitchell certainly has the brains to do his own work, but it’s a lot faster to swipe other people’s work without credit if you’re trying to churn out a book a year. See my blog, http://www.dynamist.com/weblog, for more details, and do follow the Google Books link on his truly egregious “borrowing” from Grant McCracken, who is a much more brilliant thinker.

]]> http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/comment-page-1/#comment-273 All about Twitchells » Blog Archive » Quick Roundup Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:28:14 +0000 http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/#comment-273 [...] http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/I’ve written in the past about my English Romanticism professor, James Twitchell, and how brilliant–if a bit monster-obsessed–he is. His class isn’t easy, and he doesn’t shy away from giving Ds and Fs if that’s what a student deserves. … [...] [...] http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/I’ve written in the past about my English Romanticism professor, James Twitchell, and how brilliant–if a bit monster-obsessed–he is. His class isn’t easy, and he doesn’t shy away from giving Ds and Fs if that’s what a student deserves. … [...]

]]> http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/comment-page-1/#comment-268 stefan Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:06:28 +0000 http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2008/04/26/say-it-isnt-so/#comment-268 Did you read the article?? He didn't just copy Virginia Postrel's words, he changed the names of the two stores she discussed. Why would anyone do that? It sounds deliberate, not sloppy. Did you read the article?? He didn’t just copy Virginia Postrel’s words, he changed the names of the two stores she discussed. Why would anyone do that? It sounds deliberate, not sloppy.

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