/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20929925]

>DID YOU JUST COPY A SINGLE SENTENCE IN A 50-PAGE PAPER WITHOUT CITING SOURCES?
Why do educators get so assmad about plagiarism?

[Anonymous No.20929948]

>>20929925
It's like seeding torrents. Scholars need to be quoted in order to advance their careers.

[Anonymous No.20929951]

It's to prevent original thinking, which is a no-no.

[Anonymous No.20929954]

Plagiarism is inherently atheistic. No other people gave a shit about plagiarism before the bourgeois revolutions and their hard-on for property rights. Bourgeois even think that colors and words have owners lol.
Don't think like them and you will be fine.

[Anonymous No.20929958]

>>20929925
>YOU COPIED YOUR PREVIOUS WORK
What I don’t get is how self-plagiarism is a thing. Literally contradicts the definition of ‘plagiarism’.

[Anonymous No.20929960]

'son on the log

[Anonymous No.20929965]

>>20929951
Literally the opposite. You need to now the subject to formulate original thoughts ergo you need to read people most likely smarter than you. We have a shitton of literature and not taking advantage of them shows ignorance and a shallow approach to the subject. Even Plato quoted Homer and others and there were like 5 books total at the time.
This thread is shit.

[Anonymous No.20929969]

>>20929958
brainlet
If you’re writing an assignment or an article for a publication it’s supposed to be something original
When you copy something you’ve done before (self plagiarism) it defeats the purpose of both things (being evaluated and creating something new, respectively). If you do use something you’ve written before you should cite yourself so professors or readers know it’s not something original

[Anonymous No.20929976]

>>20929925
I think the thing people often miss about academia is its obsession with history which is to really say its obsession with controlling perceptions in general.
The demonization of plagiarism is just a small reflection of this but a clear one.

[Anonymous No.20929993]

>>20929925
Those too lazy or stupid to do their own work, and those that are too selfish and grade grubbing to give credit to those that were not lazy and did their own work do not deserve the imprimatur of the reputation of the institution whether a publisher, or an academic institution.

Trust not built on action is deception.

Just because academic institutions have become capitalist grifts in the USA does not mean their professors do not have integrity.

[Anonymous No.20929996]

>>20929925
citing sources is fucking gay and teacher/professors need to quit their jobs and get on the dole.

[Anonymous No.20930007]

>>20929965
No retard, citing sources is to uphold the paradigm in place and make sure no pesky free-thinkers pollute the halls of academia or rabble rouse other students into free thinking.
Citing sources is necessary if you're writing a paper on math or physics, but if you're doing some liberal arts bullshit writing a paper on the finer points of Oscar Wilde's buttfucking or James Joyce's fart fetish, you should literally be allowed to make shit up.

[Anonymous No.20930081]

>>20929965
>there were like 5 books total at the time
No, there were many more books, only 5 are known to us today.

[Anonymous No.20930104]

>>20930007
>but if you're doing some liberal arts bullshit writing a paper on the finer points of Oscar Wilde's buttfucking or James Joyce's fart fetish, you should literally be allowed to make shit up.
Citing sources allows you to enter into a dialogue with other people writing on the topic. You don't have to cite a source to back up your argument. Your inability to see this, just shows you yourself are incapable of the free-thinking you proclaim to uphold.

[Anonymous No.20930172]

>>20930081
I was exaggerating to make a point

[Anonymous No.20930198]

>>20930104
>enter into a dialogue with other people writing on the topic.
yeah we all know it's to force you to "engage" with academics producing tertiary scholarship so an infinite enclosed system develops, justifying the academic's existence.
>HE RESPOOONDED TO ME?
>NOW I MUST CRITIQUE
>I WAS CRITIQUED?
>NOW TO RESPOOOND
ad infinitum
I'm with the commies on this one. There's no intellectual bravery or dynamism because The System imposes a forced buy-in into itself. Just academics perpetuating themselves

[Anonymous No.20930207]

>>20929965
>shows ignorance and a shallow approach to the subject.

Muh romanticism, the only reason to learn the subject is to be approved by academics so you'll get a reputation to earn tenure, it isn't actually to further knowledge at all.

[Anonymous No.20930217]

>>20930198
Then why do you stoop to the level of producing tertiary scholarship in the first place?
Checkmate, atheist.

[Anonymous No.20930222]

>>20929925
argumentum ab auctoritate

[Anonymous No.20930223]

>(Anon 2022, 69)
wow that was so hard

[Anonymous No.20930284]

>>20930207
kek you're talking about why and not how, if you're writing a paper without the intention to actually learn or teach something then you're just wasting time anyway
Although I agree that there are many such cases

[Anonymous No.20930291]

>>20930223
This,
also write in LaTeX, it literally does everything for you

[Anonymous No.20930306]

If it isn't a /pol/ infographic I could care less

[Anonymous No.20930444]

>>20929948
This is a surprisingly apt description of academia

[Anonymous No.20930465]

'b on the 'catty

[Anonymous No.20930491]

>>20929948
Fpbp. Forces you to seek scholarship before thinking; it's bureaucratic at best, resentful at worst. Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second was completely bereft of citations and is likely still the most original medieval biography of the last 100 years; he produced a bibliography only after his sensational success was criticized by the scholarly infrastructure that did not benefit from it. Ouroboric legitimacy.

[Anonymous No.20930500]

>>20929965
Found the kike professor

[Anonymous No.20930538]

>>20930500
Found the bitter incel

[Anonymous No.20930584]

>>20930172
Well your "point" is just outright incorrect. There were hundreds of books.

[Anonymous No.20930828]

>>20930538
Majority of anti semites are in committed relationships. You can't hate something without having love for someone you want to protect

[Anonymous No.20931689]

>>20929969
does this only count if you self-copy from an article or paper or also for essays that were just assignments
I have to start my thesis and if I cant recicle stuff I have done for essays I'm fucked

[Anonymous No.20931715]

>>20930828
>committed
this part.

[Anonymous No.20931776]

>>20929948
quite apt