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Seems innocuous, except that the sentence was, "This paper will investigate [author's] use of food to interrogate colonialism, patriarchy and the body in [novel]."
It came from Journal of Postmodern Studies. Fascinating article.
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« Reply #91 on: February 06, 2010, 07:31:04 PM » |
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For me, a "trivet" has feet of some sort, raising the item above the level of the table. It also usually has holes or openings of some type (usually, but not necessarily, decorative in design) to allow for dissipation of heat. A "hot pad" sits flush with the table surface and is usually, but not necessarily, cloth or tile, and is designed to keep the dish hot/warm (no active heat dissipation method) without allowing it to burn, mar with steam, or warp the table's surface. A "hot plate" is used to heat or cook various foods (and other items), usually in the context of a replacement for a stove in a place where fire codes or common sense outlaw actual stoves or burners of some type. In my days of dorm room college the typical "hot plate" was a popcorn popper. We made everything from soups and stews to sand candles using our "hot plates" in the dorm.
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« Reply #92 on: February 06, 2010, 07:52:47 PM » |
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For me, a "trivet" has feet of some sort, raising the item above the level of the table. It also usually has holes or openings of some type (usually, but not necessarily, decorative in design) to allow for dissipation of heat. A "hot pad" sits flush with the table surface and is usually, but not necessarily, cloth or tile, and is designed to keep the dish hot/warm (no active heat dissipation method) without allowing it to burn, mar with steam, or warp the table's surface. A "hot plate" is used to heat or cook various foods (and other items), usually in the context of a replacement for a stove in a place where fire codes or common sense outlaw actual stoves or burners of some type. In my days of dorm room college the typical "hot plate" was a popcorn popper. We made everything from soups and stews to sand candles using our "hot plates" in the dorm.
This is how I understand these three terms. And don't forget the dorm room grilled cheese sandwiches made with the iron. We weren't allowed to have hot plates in the dorm. |
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« Reply #93 on: February 06, 2010, 08:24:19 PM » |
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Most recently: "Self-evident" as in, "...we hold these truths to be self-evident."
Yes, I caught a frosh plagiarizing the frakking US Declaration of Independence.... In a government class. Did he think I would not notice? Wow.
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« Reply #94 on: February 06, 2010, 08:32:55 PM » |
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Most recently: "Self-evident" as in, "...we hold these truths to be self-evident."
Yes, I caught a frosh plagiarizing the frakking US Declaration of Independence.... In a government class. Did he think I would not notice? Wow.
Cliche yes, but can that be plagiarized? I believe this is one of those phrases like "Let there be light", "To be, or not to be", and "I have a dream" and many, many others that are exempt from citation. Bad writing, yes. Plagiarism, no. |
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« Reply #95 on: February 07, 2010, 08:38:30 AM » |
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Most recently: "Self-evident" as in, "...we hold these truths to be self-evident."
Yes, I caught a frosh plagiarizing the frakking US Declaration of Independence.... In a government class. Did he think I would not notice? Wow.
Cliche yes, but can that be plagiarized? I believe this is one of those phrases like "Let there be light", "To be, or not to be", and "I have a dream" and many, many others that are exempt from citation. Bad writing, yes. Plagiarism, no. Oh no, this was plagiarism-he copied much more than that word. I just posted the word that was the first tip-off to me. |
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« Reply #96 on: February 07, 2010, 12:58:22 PM » |
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For me, a "trivet" has feet of some sort, raising the item above the level of the table. It also usually has holes or openings of some type (usually, but not necessarily, decorative in design) to allow for dissipation of heat. A "hot pad" sits flush with the table surface and is usually, but not necessarily, cloth or tile, and is designed to keep the dish hot/warm (no active heat dissipation method) without allowing it to burn, mar with steam, or warp the table's surface. A "hot plate" is used to heat or cook various foods (and other items), usually in the context of a replacement for a stove in a place where fire codes or common sense outlaw actual stoves or burners of some type. In my days of dorm room college the typical "hot plate" was a popcorn popper. We made everything from soups and stews to sand candles using our "hot plates" in the dorm.
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« Reply #97 on: February 07, 2010, 01:44:40 PM » |
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A couple of semesters ago, I taught an American literature survey (Civil War to Present). It was a night course, filled with two kinds of students: nontrads who worked in the daytime and slack a$$es who signed up too late to get a decent time period. Perhaps there were a few other types; I don't really remember.
Nonetheless, I had this absolute dolt who sat on the back row. 19 years old. Backwards baseball cap. Typical frat-rat moron. He failed every quiz that I gave, never participated in class discussion, and never turned in a weekly response.
For writing assignment 1 in my lit courses, I always assign a close reading of one text, 2-3 pages, no outside research. And what does this knuckle-dragging mouth-breather turn in? A 9-page essay about "Gender Politics" in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
I didn't even use Google. I wrote "F--Plagiarized" on page one and handed the essay back at the next class meeting. After class, this moron has the audacity ask, "Why did I get a zero on this essay?"
"Because it's plagiarized," I said, packing my bag. I had to get home. LOST started at 9:00 p.m.
"No it's not," he said defensively and stared at me. "I worked hard on this. I did a lot of research."
I raised my eyebrows. "Clearly," I said. "Do me a favor. Define 'gender politics.'"
He hemmed and hawed for a second, dancing in place like a kid caught stealing milk money. "Well, it's like about how politics affects gender."
"Define gender," I said, walking to the front door.
He stared at me.
"I didn't think so," I said and left. Two weeks later, he hadn't made a single class meeting. I got a message from him on WebCT. He said he'd gone to visit his uncle in New York City and his car had broken down and he couldn't get home. I never answered the email, and I've never heard from him again.
My pet peeve: stupidity.
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« Reply #98 on: February 07, 2010, 03:12:58 PM » |
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He couldn't define gender? No child left behind, indeed.
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« Reply #99 on: February 07, 2010, 03:13:56 PM » |
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He couldn't define gender? No child left behind, indeed.
Well. As a biologist, I'd like to point out that defining 'gender' is much harder than defining 'sex'. |
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« Reply #100 on: February 07, 2010, 03:14:52 PM » |
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That may be, but still . . . dude . . . take a shot at it.
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« Reply #101 on: February 07, 2010, 11:15:29 PM » |
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Most recently: "Self-evident" as in, "...we hold these truths to be self-evident."
Yes, I caught a frosh plagiarizing the frakking US Declaration of Independence.... In a government class. Did he think I would not notice? Wow.
Cliche yes, but can that be plagiarized? I believe this is one of those phrases like "Let there be light", "To be, or not to be", and "I have a dream" and many, many others that are exempt from citation. Bad writing, yes. Plagiarism, no. Oh no, this was plagiarism-he copied much more than that word. I just posted the word that was the first tip-off to me. Perhaps he thinks plagiarism is an unalienable right? |
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« Reply #102 on: February 07, 2010, 11:58:54 PM » |
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"Prevaricate."
I'm sad. This student was terrified about this paper, so we talked at length about her concerns. She seemed much more confident when she left. Guess not.
Is sadness and disappointment a rookie response? Does that go away? Let up a little? It's so much more poignant than I anticipated.
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« Reply #103 on: February 08, 2010, 12:41:40 PM » |
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"Prevaricate."
I'm sad. This student was terrified about this paper, so we talked at length about her concerns. She seemed much more confident when she left. Guess not.
Is sadness and disappointment a rookie response? Does that go away? Let up a little? It's so much more poignant than I anticipated.
Sadness and disappointment don't go away. Not for me, at least, and I've been teaching for 16 years. On the flip side, the happiness (when you read a great paper; when a student makes great strides; when a class goes unusually well) doesn't go away either. |
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« Reply #104 on: February 08, 2010, 09:08:07 PM » |
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Thank you for the explanation of the use of "presentism" and "historicism" in the papers. I was wondering if it was a complete cut & paste job (I work in a field where those terms get used from time-to-time, but I don't think I've ever seen them appear in a student paper).
On "trivet", its original use (according to the OED) was for a tripod used to raise pots above fires. According to American dictionaries, "trivet" is the standard word for an insulating ceramic or metal slab. It need not have three feet in current American usage. I assume that hot pad refers to an insulated pad of some kind. "hot pad" doesn't appear in the concise OED.
I'm now better educated about this subject than I was when I wrote my original reply.
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