Word: plagiarist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want a piece of me? Let's take this outside!" These warrior witnesses convince me that there is no good strategic reason for anyone to sit and listen to his character being trashed by committee members with their share of flaws. During one such hearing, the accusers included a plagiarist, an influence peddler, an apologist for organized crime and a criminally negligent motorist. It reminded me of the story of the woman who visits a butcher shop, picks up a chicken and starts prodding and sniffing the bird. The butcher asks, "Lady--you could pass such a test...
...SMALL BEHAVIOR] Delays publication to delete most references to Robert Hooke, who called him a plagiarist...
...serial plagiarist is a familiar journalistic type, but the serial fabulist is rare. Glass concocted story after story and slipped them all past his editors and fact checkers, often buttressing his claims with forged notes and interview transcripts and other bogus documents. His work was challenged from time to time--a March 1997 account of a cocaine-fueled orgy at a young-conservatives conference was hooted at loudly--but his career sailed on, with free-lance contracts from a fistful of magazines...
Chests were heaving in passionate disbelief at last week's Romance Writers of America convention when it emerged that one of the genre's most prolific and popular writers was a plagiarist. JANET DAILEY, right, who has written 93 novels, has 200 million books in print and even has an award named after her, has admitted lifting excerpts from the work of NORA ROBERTS (125 novels, 30 million in print). A fan happened to read Notorious by Dailey and Sweet Revenge by Roberts back to back and posted strikingly similar passages on the Internet. ("Like a rocket, the heat tore...
According to Expository Writing Preceptor Anne E. Fernald, plagiarism is an emotional ordeal for the instructor as well as the plagiarist...