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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a sad state of things when an administrator would have to think of running a plagiarism check on the college grad speaker.[/quote]
It should be routine. Kids high school papers are all checked I assumed that continued through college. [/quote]

It is a bit of surprise that they don’t check these things.  When I worked on the Hill, we ran all speeches through software that checked for plagiarism (and this was more than a decade ago). [/quote]

I'd be curious to know if a plagiarism algorithm would catch it.  She actually worked very hard rearranging every phrase.  The side by side, makes it clear she didn't just regurgitate something that had been shared with her, but labored over hiding the origins.  She better have the PR firm working up responses to whatever's about to be discovered in the rest of her published work.  [/quote]

It seemed like the thesaurus was getting a good work out I agree. Was she taught that you can't take things word for word and call them your own, but can rearrange things a bit, kind of like not making an exact copy of a Picasso painting but rather doing something " in the style of..."[/quote]

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