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Amongst other silliness, it claims that King John's titles included Duke of Hazzard, and observes that "peasants were reduced to eating burage and socage." It also invents a fictitious war against Flanders Fland (a region on the coast of Luxembourg) and cites such scholarly tomes as Bollock and Maidenhead's classic Interminable History of the English Law.

Note that it includes the phrase "Discipulus tuus hunc tractatum non scripsit."

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Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:36:09 -0800 Laura K. Krishna is a Plagiarist. http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/blog/archives/the_laura_k_krishna_saga/000023.html http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/blog/archives/the_laura_k_krishna_saga/000023.html http://www.aweekofkindness.com/blog/archives/the_laura_k_krishna_saga/000023....

Nate Kushner’s sting involving a student plagiarist buying a paper.

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Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:26:50 -0800 Tools for Teaching: Preventing Academic Dishonesty http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/bgd/prevent.html http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/bgd/prevent.html http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/prevent.html

Scroll down for comparison of paraphrase and plagiarism

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Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:24:45 -0800 BBC: Essay Sales 'belittle education' http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/2/hi/uk_news/education/4445357.stm http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/2/hi/uk_news/education/4445357.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4445357.stm

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