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Originally Posted by LisaS
I have no dog in this fight per se - but I will raise the possibility that similar text like this could also be due to two distinct paraphrasings of a third (and unreferenced) source or textbook.
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I've done it. Read something somewhere, paraphrased and really there's only so many ways to paraphrase information like that, and credited my source. If I'm in a class with 10 other girls all writing the same paper with the same 4 source articles, they're gonna be a lot alike. My only difference is a bigger vocab, better thesaurus, and 10 extra years of experience writing.
To the idea at hand:
As I'm looking through this, all I see as similarities is the actual "what" of the text. Of course it's gonna be the same, that's what happens. I don't see areas that are less technical that are put up for comparison. The non-crunchy talky bits that would point rather clearly to someone ripping someone else's stuff, as opposed to just the same information presented similarly.
I think the case is skillfully presented to rile people up and piss people off and whatnot. Personally, without both actual documents in front of me, I'd just call it a case of similar dissemination of information. Not like you can just make up new words for this shit. *shrug* You're either gonna read into it what Lyle wants you to, or you're not (and, of course, therefore suckling at Alwyn's teets).
Meh.