Susan Blum begins the third chapter with clear, if limited, definitions of two types of people. Authentic selves “insist that their words ar...

So I'm on to Susan Blum's second chapter entitled, "Intertextuality, Authorship, and Plagiarism." As the title suggests, t...

So I've made my way through the Introduction and the first chapter of Susan Blum's My Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture . It...

I hate plagiarism. Hate it. Don’t like the word. Don’t like how it sounds. Don’t like spelling it. Hate it. And I particularly hate when peo...

One of the most annoying traits of public debate in recent years is how often people dismiss one another’s views out of hand. Too often I he...

Last week we talked about how argumentation is at the core of academic writing. I was going to attempt to spell out how to make an argument,...

When most students hear the word “argument,” they think of angry people yelling at one another. When you tell them that academic writing is ...