Author(s)/Creator(s)

Rebecca Moore HowardFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

3-2000

Keywords

plagiarism writing college

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Rhetoric and Composition

Description/Abstract

Considers how plagiarism continues to elude definition because teachers cannot possibly formulate and act on a definition of plagiarism that articulates both its textual and sexual work. Discusses linking sexual property to textual transgression and rejecting metaphors in relationship to rejecting plagiarism. Suggests educators stop using the term plagiarism altogether and replace it with "fraud," "insufficient citation," and "excessive repetition."

Additional Information

Copyright © 2000 by the National Council of Teachers of English.

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