Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "GBNews"
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Maybe there're just too many PhD's and not enough new ground to go around.
But this plagiarism thing is KID stuff. Maybe a high school or undergraduate pulls a fast one to pad a 10-page paper, but for anyone at the upper division or above, citing references adds more weight to your work, and demonstrates good scholarship. "This ain't just me sayin' this. Here's this other guy/gal with good credentials who's saying the same thing. $ee how diligent I am?" Why would you ever want - as a professional scholar - to show ignorance of what went before, when a scholar is someone who knows everything there is to bee known about what went before and can be found in the literature?
My dissertation's nothing to brag about, but the references cited were what made it a scholarly work. Maybe it's just different in the humanities, like they've run out of anything new to do, and have nothing original to say.
I never went to a high-dollar school, but we had ethics, integrity, and humility.
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