• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      I agree that modern academia defines that as plagiarism. I can’t help but notice that this didn’t use to be the definition until homework scanning websites became a thing in the mid 2000’s. Funny how that works.

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        It still is not plagiarism. Lazy people like to call it that so they don’t have to check. It is sad to see. Source: my professor who is leading plagiarism investigations at the university

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      Of you post a preprint to arxiv, and submit the same paper to a journal, you don’t generally cite the preprint in the journal submission, and it’s not considered plagiarism either.

      That’s why they’re called “preprints.”

      This seems like a similar situation, except the “preprint” went up on some form of personal blog, and the “journal” was a class submission.