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Connections: How to tell when someone has plagiarized

Can we talk about plagiarism for a moment? It cost Monica Crowley her job in the Trump administration, and this week, Slate online published a piecedetailing the many ways the Trump administration has copied, borrowed, or outright lifted from other sources.

Foreign policy writer and professor Dan Drezner says there is a danger that students are going to think that plagiarism doesn't matter anymore. We talk about why it does -- and how teachers and professors are getting better at sniffing it out. Our guests:

  • Dr. M. Elizabeth Thorpe, assistant professor of communications at the College at Brockport
  • Dr. Beth Jörgensen, professor of Spanish and chair of the Board on Academic Honesty at the University of Rochester
  • Dr. Rachel Remmel, academic honesty liaison and instructional development specialist in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Rochester
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Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.

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