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When is a plagiarist not a plagiarist?

Answer: When he’s a professor

Which I am not. But I suppose I should take it as a kind of perverted praise that Prof. Mercy L Candelaria (International Student Adviser and Professor, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of the East, Manila, Philippines) should lift an entire webpage of mine, make a few perfunctory changes, and then publish it online claiming it as his (her?) own.

But then I suppose there are professors and professors. And I’m not sure I would wish to accept praise from a professor who felt my work worthy of copying and putting his name to (with apologies to Groucho Marx).

The page itself is trivial enough, a selection of proverbs with attempts to explain their meanings. Be that as it may, Prof. Candelaria is an out-and-out plagiarist. Worse perhaps, the University of the East (residing in the upright-sounding Recto Avenue, Manila) may be too, since they claim copyright (and have not, incidentally, had the courtesy to respond to my email of 23 August 2008 requesting that the page be removed or the source cited).

Wordchecker

  • plagiarist (noun): a person who commits plagiarism
  • plagiarism (noun): the practice of stealing another person’s work and putting one’s own name to it
  • professor (noun): a university teacher of the highest rank
  • trivial (adjective): of little importance
  • out-and-out (adjective): complete; absolute
  • cite (verb): mention; reference

Original at EnglishClub.com
http://www.englishclub.com/reading/proverbs-meaning.htm
Downloaded 12 June 2010 in PDF format

Plagiarized at University of the East
http://www.ue.edu.ph/manila/uetoday/?nav=19.htm&archive=200701
Downloaded 12 June 2010 in PDF format

Joe | Saturday, June 12th, 2010 | Filed under Rants

5 Responses to “When is a plagiarist not a plagiarist?”

  1. Natasha Yankovskaya says:
    12th June 2010 at 11:23 am

    I see that plagiarism is widespread nowadays.But there are quite outrageous facts, so is your case. It’s difficult to consider this person to be a real professor.
    Thanks for sharing.
    Best wishes.

  2. Hanane says:
    12th June 2010 at 5:40 pm

    I think that she or he does not know what plagiarism means, and instead of being an International Student Adviser and a Professor, she or he needs a professor to advise her or him about plagiarism.
    Regaeds Dear Sir Josef

  3. Tara Benwell says:
    12th June 2010 at 9:22 pm

    Incredible story and example of plagiarism. I hope many people stumble across this post and think twice about copying pages from the Internet.

  4. Rut says:
    15th June 2010 at 2:00 pm

    I know what you mean. I used to work in a school where they just photocopied books and added “coyright”, “all rights reserved or somthing like that”. This is one of the reasons why stopped working there. Unfortunately plagiarism, or even worst simply copy is a regular practice and most of the times authors will never know it.
    Tara, I think the point here is not saying the work is yours, they should have been honest and say they just copy and adapted from the original.

  5. Xkalibur says:
    28th October 2010 at 6:47 pm

    Disgusting woman, she and similar plagiarists. What surprises me most is that the page is still there.
    If you like, I can start an agitational campaign and let users (in Russia&FSU) know what she did?

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