How much did Monica Crowley plagiarize in her doctoral dissertation? Take a quick look.

[kstewart33]

Hoping Columbia University is getting a good look at this.

Link: http://money.cnn.com/interactive/news/kfile-monica-crowley-dissertation-plagiarism/index.html

[spooky3]

1. Wow! The evidence at the link is compelling. Nt

[chelsea0011]

5. Word for word in places. Not even trying to change wording to hide fact she didn't write it.

[WhiteTara]

2. Maybe she was Melanoma's

speech "writer" She seems to have lots of practice stealing other people's words.

[JHan]

3. "Melanoma" ......... why y'all so terrible lmao

[WhiteTara]

6. Glad it amused you!

We have so little to laugh about these days.

[malaise]

12. Had that thought earlier today

Makes sense

Lazy supervisor

add

[Sanity Claws]

4. Copy and paste job

I read about ten of the excerpts and all seem to be an analysis that someone else had done. She had not gone to the original sources to do her own research and interpretation but instead relied on the research and analysis of secondary sources.

My oh my. How things have changed from the time I was in Graduate School.

[Citrus]

7. Wow...

I couldn't have gotten away with even one line of plagiarism as an undergrad. My instructors and professors knew their fields and the literature and regularly caught even slight and unintentional hints at plagiarism. I have to wonder who, if anyone!, read this and why it was approved. Sadly, it's too easy at many schools to get a PhD. Undergraduate work is equivalent to high school (or worse), graduate school is barely up to the not-so-old standards of undergraduate levels, and post-graduate work is only minimally at what used to be (not that long ago) undergrad or post-grad levels.

This speaks volumes about Columbia and hopefully tarnishes them for a long time...deservedly so.

::sigh:: Seems like we keep lowering the bar everywhere instead of raising it.

[Grey Lemercier]

8. Columbia has rescinded PhD's before for plagiarism

https://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8932sci1.html

They need to rescind hers as soon as possible, if a due process hearing finds she did indeed (which it appears she did) plagiarise.

[BainsBane]

10. It's pretty bad it got through in the first place

and that her committee wouldn't be familiar enough with Kissinger's writings to spot it.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Plagiarism is just one part. New tools compare papers to see if someone else authored the works.

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Some British firm offers a 99.9% accuracy in checking paper sources to see if someone else wrote the paper.


The first step would be to check all of Crowley's papers to see if any incorporate a different writing style, linguistics, level set, etc. This would indicate if she had others write a paper on her behalf, whether another student or published author.


Taking this to the next level, they could compare her written works against the cannon of written works and papers--seeing if another student or author was the actual writer of her paper(s).

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[erpowers]

11. She Needs to be Pulled From Consideration for the Position

This is not just one or two instances of plagiarism, but many instances. According to CNN accusations of plagiarism from Monica Crowley go back all the way to 1999. Adding the 1999 claim to the PhD claim and the book claim bring the total accusations of plagiarism to three. Also, it is not just that she plagiarized her dissertation, but how much she plagiarized her dissertation. There was not just one instance of plagiarism in her dissertation; there were many. She did not just plagiarize one author; she plagiarized multiple authors. Due to the amount of plagiarism within her dissertation it cannot be said that she wrote her dissertation. Therefore, she does not deserve a PhD.