Letters to the Editor
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@Banal Anonymous:
Slackers never lasted in the classes I taught. I winnowed them out fairly quickly with the ten page research essay. You see, I always required them to provide hard copies of any source that they paraphrased. I caught lots of plagiarizers that way. Of course, I usually kept making them revise over and over until it was ALL in their own words. I was a little sadistic that way. Those types where usually gone by the drop date, and subsequent plagiarizers? I flunked them. Football coaches hated me. Maybe I ruined someone's sports career. Maybe I ruined someone's science career. Maybe he/she would have found a cure for cancer. I don't care.
Athletes, fraternity boys, party people, and harried single moms all bit the dust if they cheated.
The reason Biden will never get my vote: He plagiarized.
I confess: I am a word snob. If you think English is for sissies, you were probably never challenged enough -- or maybe you found easy teachers.
As to why I read Broadsheet? It amuses me. It also really amuses me that so many people who claim to dislike it post here.