My plagiarism in this case is a clear indictment of the educational system

I know that things are getting all het up with the Ward Churchill discussions but I just came across [via boingboing] this most hilarious advice on academic plagiarism written by Alex Halavais back in May:

- The only people allowed to use the word “colour” are those with Indian surnames.
- Try not to plagiarize the teacher
- Make sure you pick a word that sounds impervious and use it incorrigibly, or inventorate words.
- Don’t do what one of my graduate students did, and steal a text on Korean feminism from someone who wrote slightly better English than he did.
- When you copy things from the web into Word, ignoring #3 above, don’t just “Edit > Paste” it into your document.

And he follows that up with excuses to use when caught. Brilliant.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming: As The Ward Turns.

Better: The 33rd History Carnival has arrived at the American Presidents Blog. Thanks to Jennie W!