Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional, Harvard law professor Ogletree t...
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“ . . . Although the book occasionally bogs down in legal lingo, it offers readers
an honest if fractured account of one man's firsthand experiences with one of the most significant court decisions of the 20th century . . . ”
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‘ . . . and covers the span of six paragraphs. Although Ogletree has been cleared of intentional plagiarism, critics have called into question the very process . . . ’
‘ . . . “one was inserting material in the book. The other, he says, was reviewing, researching and summarizing the material for inclusion in the book,” writes Velvel.
“What these two assistants were doing sounds awfully much as if they were writing the book, . . ” . . ’
Actually, I like a “wet” book!
By this, I mean a messy, imperfect, discordant book.
I think we should accept Prof. Ogletree’s apology on the accidental plagiarism, although he probably should credit the two research assistants on the cover.
We should similarly accept apologies from students on plagiarism. It’s the type of charge, which once made, feeds on itself. It’s hard to say something unique on any subject, and yeah, the student most probably has been influenced by what he or she has read before! I mean, how could they not be?
