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LImericks on plagiarism

During my first semester as a doctoral student, Professor Michelle Cloonan ran a seminar on plagiarism and one assignment was to write about the topic in any literarary format. I chose limericks:


The words are not mine I have cheated
Those thoughts are already well-treated
Yes, a writer before
Said it better what's more
Her career is intact, mine's depleted


Child, you must include a citation
Quoted works deserve enumeration
So says my advisor
Who think it not wiser
For ethics to take a vacation


That idea seemed unquestionably mine
After all, what an original opine
Then the truth appeared
And just as I'd feared
I was neither the fruit nor the vine

 
The computer helps writers make haste
In a second they can cut and paste
As words are flying
The editor's crying
The poor author's words get defaced


A rose is a rose is a rose
A keen botanist might compose
But wait! It's been said
By someone who's dead
Be careful, don't step on her toes


I once knew an idea kidnapper
Whose writing seemed wonderfully dapper
Then a close inspection
Caused the detection
That he was a sham, worse, a sapper


 

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The information horizon interview projects were created by students in the course INF1323, The Information Experience, at the University of Toronto's iSchool in the fall of 2017. The Information Horizons exhibition was curated by Ashley Nicol and Sara Stonehouse, under the supervision of Dr. Jenna Hartel.
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