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David McGrath
Columnist EducationNews.org
As a college English teacher, I’ve written before about the problem of plagiarism, citing instances such as the request a student once made late in the semester, to change her term paper topic from "Entitlements for Federally Recognized Indian Tribes,” to "The Trail of Tears," because, she said, she could not find enough information on the former.

David McGrath
Guest Columnist EdNews.org
Having recently traveled out of state to attend a wedding reception, my wife and I were seated at a banquet table with six other guests, only two of whom we had met before.

David McGrath
Guest Columnist EdNews.org
Apparently, I owe an apology to a college student I failed in 1985 for plagiarizing his thesis on space travel. That's because the University of Southern Illinois now indicates that his particular "style" of doing research was commonplace and forgivable.