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Marius' error ironically occured while he gave samples of plagiarism for students to evaluate, when he confused the name of a primary source with the author's first name while reading the text...
...typed the paper and left out all the quotation marks" or other examples of poor writing. He said that when taking notes, students "should make a clear distinction between your thoughts about the source and the words of the source itself," adding that students should mark all paraphrases by author and title...
...once authoritative and anecdotal. He treats each of the three Popes in this book as a unique individual who put his personal stamp on the church, but he is most fascinating on the subject of the present Pontiff, John Paul II. In a highly unusual private dinner with the author, the Pope confided that he "could sense" his own election near the beginning of 1978's second conclave. Wynn's most provocative assertion: the Vatican at the "highest level" believes that the Soviet Union engineered the 1981 attempt on John Paul's life in order to deprive the restive Poles...
BREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler (Knopf; $18.95). With her customary firm but gentle touch and ear for nuance, the author weaves a tale depicting the quotidian mysteries of marriage and staying together...
Unfortunately, the revelations about Jones are not monstrous enough (she was erratic mentally and took drugs) to disguise the real intent of the novel's rather soapy second half: to find a nice, sexy, feminist man for Polly. Why is this soapy? Because the author misplaces the fine edge of irony with which she described the lesbian Jeanne. Her tone becomes ever so slightly earnest. And earnest, in the writing of social comedy, is what it is very important...