Dear Jeremy,
Got to disagree with you on this point. Terry clearly stated that this is an application to a doctoral program, not a research grant or a post-doc.
The skills required to write a proper reference do not take 30 years of training. When I last taught undergraduates back at the Norwegian School of Management, my first year students all learned how to write a proper reference list as well as managing all references and citations within the text. In most years, one third of the students mastered referencing and citation to the highest standards. One third did a highly credible job with occasional mistakes. One third struggled, but managed nevertheless to do a responsible job despite flaws.
There were no cases of misattribution among these first-year students, and certainly no cases of plagiarism. Being a business school, of course, there were no paintings submitted as research.
Yours,
Ken
Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS
Dean, Faculty of Design
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:
To take an academic form about research grants or postdocs to an art school and expect it to be filled out as a researcher who has been doing it 30 years is just expecting too much. So my position is not that any norms were broken or any wrong caused here, but that the rationality and normality of the forms was inaccessible to the respondent filling it out and instead of seeking help from someone 'in the know' they did they best they could.
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