A fervent loonie has "written" an essay opening with a paragraph alleging that most university professors are Communists (of course, for all I know, this opening paragraph may have been itself plagiarized), then has copied and pasted my "How to Demoralize Thoroughly Your Graduate Student" post from 2005, then had added other paragraphs at the end. (By the way, the loonie is apparently either so stupid that he/she missed that my post was sarcastic, or willfully uncomprehending.)
I wrote to the owners of the publishing site where the loonie's essay was published. We will see if I get any response.
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Dear Scribd,
One of your users, confede, has plagiarized my blog post from 2005. I published "How to demoralize thoroughly your graduate student" in 2005 on my blog (link here: http://impropaganda.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-to-demoralize-thoroughly-your.html) and I noticed today that this essay is copied in its entirety, sandwiched between other paragraphs that are not mine, on scribd:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51909777/Inventors-and-Instruments-of-Demoralization
Although my blog is linked on the title, the way that confede's post is "written" gives the impression that "How to demoralize thoroughly your graduate student" is his/her work. If there was any intention that my post was simply quoted (in full) and not plagiarized, it is not clear from reading confede's post where my work ends and the paragraphs he/she appended after it begin. Thus, even as a "quotation" (in full) of my work, it fails.
I would appreciate if Scribd could take steps to address this matter.
Sincerely,
Suzanne
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