KAMALA'S PLAGIARISM: I just graduated Theological Seminary with a Master's degree. This experience has been unlike most of the work involved in my M.S. Degree (in the 1980s & 90s) in Adult Education. There, I mostly studied the "masters "works and applied them. In the Seminary, I was tasked with two or three significant research papers per course.
In Seminary, we were tasked with studying a vast number of authors, research articles, Scriptures, etc., to populate the body of our papers, and we had to do it the right way!
I was both surprised and thankful at the "academic rigor" applied to the assignments. The profs emphasized that our writings were not to be "opinion" or "first-person", rather researched thoroughly. The placed great importance on citing the sources from which our information came.
If this is NOT the focus, the students' works would be OPINION. If not cited properly, the student could seem intelligent when they are really a thief.
Schools that place value in accepted norms of academic rigor produce responsible, honest graduates. It's hard doing the research! But not many easy things in life have lasting value.
Kamala's plagiarism is one more example of her value to America if she's selected to be the next empty suit that occupies our nations' presidency.
Her name is on the book but I doubt she wrote one word. Her ghost writer did sloppy work and thought she could get by stealing others work. But Kamala claims she wrote the book so the buck stops with her. Joe Biden lost his first race for President because he plagiarized but not a peep about her or the recent accusations about Walz and a minor boy. Of course we are still waiting for the accuser to step up.
Geeze, how many people have jobs they really love? Reality is that when we get good at something, we mostly get boredom with the work. The trick is to serve the individual knowing you have done everything in your capacity to help them. Then, you can turn it back over to them to carry on with the process of living an improved quality of life. Doc Goobie has figured out that happiness doesn’t come from outside yourself, it comes from within.
KAMALA'S PLAGIARISM: I just graduated Theological Seminary with a Master's degree. This experience has been unlike most of the work involved in my M.S. Degree (in the 1980s & 90s) in Adult Education. There, I mostly studied the "masters "works and applied them. In the Seminary, I was tasked with two or three significant research papers per course.
In Seminary, we were tasked with studying a vast number of authors, research articles, Scriptures, etc., to populate the body of our papers, and we had to do it the right way!
I was both surprised and thankful at the "academic rigor" applied to the assignments. The profs emphasized that our writings were not to be "opinion" or "first-person", rather researched thoroughly. The placed great importance on citing the sources from which our information came.
If this is NOT the focus, the students' works would be OPINION. If not cited properly, the student could seem intelligent when they are really a thief.
Schools that place value in accepted norms of academic rigor produce responsible, honest graduates. It's hard doing the research! But not many easy things in life have lasting value.
Kamala's plagiarism is one more example of her value to America if she's selected to be the next empty suit that occupies our nations' presidency.
Her name is on the book but I doubt she wrote one word. Her ghost writer did sloppy work and thought she could get by stealing others work. But Kamala claims she wrote the book so the buck stops with her. Joe Biden lost his first race for President because he plagiarized but not a peep about her or the recent accusations about Walz and a minor boy. Of course we are still waiting for the accuser to step up.
Good points, Karen. Seems to me someone fact-checked Obama's book, but it did hot help.
Geeze, how many people have jobs they really love? Reality is that when we get good at something, we mostly get boredom with the work. The trick is to serve the individual knowing you have done everything in your capacity to help them. Then, you can turn it back over to them to carry on with the process of living an improved quality of life. Doc Goobie has figured out that happiness doesn’t come from outside yourself, it comes from within.