Use These 10 Online Services to Detect Plagiarism. If we've learned one thing from the Jonah Lehrer plagiarism debacle it's that copying or falsifying your work just isn't worth it.
Last month, The New Yorker writer resigned from his position at the magazine after admitting to fabricating quotes in his latest book, as well as borrowing from his own articles at other publications. Plagiarism is as much a serious offense in the academic world as it is in journalism. Most high schools and universities take extreme disciplinary action if a student is caught cheating or plagiarizing, often leading to suspension or expulsion. SEE ALSO: Students, Here’s How to Kick-Start Your Personal Brand Online We've rounded up 10 online services that check text for plagiarism. Note: Many of these services support English text only. Thumbnail image courtesy of Flickr, peteoshea. Smart Writing. Modern academics are not celebrated for the clarity and felicity of their writing.
One of the most important lessons a postgraduate student can learn—and if he doesn’t learn it soon, he’s doomed—is that academics generally do not write books and articles for the purpose of expressing their ideas as clearly as possible for the benefit of people who don’t already understand and agree with them. Academics don’t write to be read; they write to be published. Typically, the only people who actually read academic books and articles are other academics, who only read them to know what they need to reference in their own books and articles. And that’s not reading; that’s trawling. Newscom Helen Sword, associate professor at the Centre for Academic Development at the University of Auckland, wants to persuade her colleagues that they can do better. The reasons for this perversity have been debated in the pages of intellectual magazines (like this one) for decades.
Too bad there are so few of them. Los secretos de un buen libro, por Beatriz Celaya - Revista de Letras. Ya lo dicen los médicos: lo que es bueno para unos no tiene por qué funcionar en otros.
Lo mismo parece ocurrir en el mundo editorial donde el negocio se basa en un producto: el libro, y sin embargo cuando unos y otros hablan de lo se considera bueno nadie habla de lo mismo. Los escritores se fijan en el producto y los editores en sus ventas. ¿Es lo mismo escribir un buen libro o que un libro venda? Nos hemos propuesto indagar en qué coinciden un escritor y un editor y para ello hemos reunido en una misma mesa a cinco editores, seis escritores y un experto en redes 2.0 y les hemos preguntado sus pareceres. Dibujo: D. Lucha libro, duelo de escritores.
El futuro de la literatura peruana se decide en un cuadrilátero.
Lunes a lunes, sentados frente a un ordenador, un jurado inclemente y un público entregado que jalea a sus favoritos, un puñado de escritores enmascarados se baten a duelo. Uno contra uno, eliminación simple. Los participantes cuentan con cinco minutos para escribir una historia en la que deben incluir tres elementos elegidos por la organización. El premio: El favor del público y un libro publicado. Los perdedores no solo quedan apeados de la carrera a la final, además perderán la máscara que los identifica en un ritual inspirado en la humillación a la que se someten los luchadores mexicanos derrotados.
El concurso se llama Lucha Libro: Campeonato de Improvisación Literaria, y su originalidad lo ha convertido en una de las mayores atracciones de la oferta cultural limeña. La idea nació hace ya diez años, cuando el publicista Christopher Vásquez quiso publicar un libro de relatos. Watch This Author Use A Google Document To Write And Edit A Book In Real-Time. I can’t imagine someone being able to watch every keystroke as I write a post like this, but author Silvia Hartmann is writing a novel and is welcoming you to watch her progress.
Live and in real-time. Using a public Google Document, Hartmann is typing away on “The Dragon Lords,” and the whole idea absolutely fascinates me. It’s unlikely that I’ll sit at my computer and watch her type, but I’ll probably check in from time to time on how she’s doing. Here’s what the Google Enterprise team had to say about it: Fantasy author Silvia Hartmann is reinventing the editorial process by letting her readers follow along as she drafts her new novel – The Dragon Lords – in a public Google document. Of course you can’t do your own editing with the document, but it is quite an experience to feel such a bond with an author. You might get a chance to read the book before it’s ever available for purchase.
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