Former German ministre star falls over plagiat

[Platapus]

Well The Frau is a instructor teaching at two colleges. The rampant plagiarism that is going on seems to indicate that a large group of people think it is acceptable.

Couple that with the larger number of people not in academia who probably don't really care about plagiarism and you can get a pretty sizable percentage of the population who would think like this.

[Schroeder]

@Platapus
That's pi$$ing (sorry Steve, it had to be) me off to no end as well. Most people who have no academic degree have no idea what it means to write a thesis or some other paper using scientific standards. That's nothing you do in the meantime when you feel like it! It is really hard work and when some clown just comes by and does a copy paste job and the general population doesn't seem to care then this is really frustrating for everyone with an honest degree (no, I'm no doctor, just a Diplomkaufmann / business graduate). Another nice side effect is that now everyone assumes that every academic is working like that and that it hardly takes any effort or skill to get a degree.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Well The Frau is a instructor teaching at two colleges. The rampant plagiarism that is going on seems to indicate that a large group of people think it is acceptable.

Hardly surprising when the formula in most high schools nowdays is Copy & Paste + Edit(maybe) = DONE HOMEWORK. Given the lack of originality, future teachers may find their own biology report from ten years earlier staring back at them someday when they grade homework.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Hardly surprising when the formula in most high schools nowdays is Copy & Paste + Edit(maybe) = DONE HOMEWORK. Given the lack of originality, future teachers may find their own biology report from ten years earlier staring back at them someday when they grade homework.

Or in a job interview

True story

The Frau used to work for Company X as a documentation manager. Fast forward a few years and now she is working for Company Y.... and interviewing prospective employees.

Enter this dummy who wants a job. Seems he works for Company X as a documentation manager... When The Frau asked him for a sample of his work, he gave her a document SHE wrote while at company X and claimed it was his. He did not even update it.

OOps Bad luck dude.