My first reaction to reading this list is: at least these miscreants have
good taste! However, I have a serious question: are the essays in question
by these estimable scholars all available on the web? Are the articles
being reproduced without the author's permission? If so, I wonder if a
concerted effort by scholars along with their publishers to remove
copyrighted material from the website might be in order.
Peter C. Herman
At 12:40 PM 6/1/2005, you wrote:
>Deceptively simple style indeed! My own horrible pedagogical experience
>this term is THREE cases of serious plagiarism and I've wasted time I
>should be spending on overdue scholarly work just tracking it down. Since
>this was a Renaissance course it's peculiar to see so many friends in this
>context. So far I've seen bits stolen from, let's see, Mary Ellen Lamb,
>Catherine Bates, Elizabeth McCutcheon, Judith Owens, Harry Berger, Alison
>Chapman, and Ashgate's promo material for Dana Gibbs. No Prescott, which
>sugests minimal prudence; no Quitslund, Beth, which suggests that your
>stuff is too deceptively simple? Deceptively complex? What gets me is the
>stitching together of so many sources (and those are just the ones with
>named authors). Wouldn't it be easier just to think? One set of
>plagiarisms appeared on an in-class exam; the assistant dean of students
>(a Renaissance scholar himself) points out to me that with modern handheld
>and way cool electronic devices you can access the web from right there in
>the back of the classroom. Obviously, I need to get with the times. It's
>good to see the names of colleagues in Renaissance studies whom I know or
>at least admire, but not in this context! Anne Prescott.
>
> > Being on the quarter system, and thus neck-deep in final papers, II just
> > came across an essay from my Renaissance survey that opened with the
> > following sentence: "Spenser's Faerie Queene is written in a deceptively
> > simple style."
> >
> > It does make me wonder what else she was reading this quarter.
> >
> > Beth
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ==============================================
> >
> > Beth Quitslund
> > Assistant Professor of English
> >
> > Department of English
> > Ohio University
> > Athens, OH 45701
> > phone: (740) 593-2829
> > FAX: (740) 593-2818
> >
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