August 8, 2008
When a Syllabus Is Not Your Own
Is it plagiarism when a colleague borrows your syllabus and then uses it in its entirety for his own course?
A former student asks to borrow a book. She assumes I have it because, after all, "we're using your syllabus."
"What do you mean you're using my syllabus?" I ask.
"I'm fairly sure it's yours," she replies. "It looks like you." Rifling through her bag, she produces a stapled copy and hands it to me.
It is my syllabus. Only it isn't my name at the top. It's
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