Ivy League Scam-Artist
Is competition to get into an Ivy-League school fierce? Yes. Should it be? Maybe…but maybe not. This teen “prodigy” who signed her book deal for over six figures now is being dragged through the mud for publishing plaigerized work.
I believe she should be punished severely.
She should get tossed out of Harvard. If Harvard cared at all about academic integrity and ethics, they would expel her.
But I also think that her Publisher should be punished. In their zeal for profiteering, they rushed to market a book by an unknown.
How did she even land a book deal? I find it hard to believe that she randomly landed a book deal for over six-figures. I doubt she went and bought Writer’s Market 2005 and sent off letters and samples and just got lucky.
It’s too bad. Now book publishers will be less likely to take risks on young, unkown authors. All they really needed to do was proof-read her book before rushing it to market.
Now, everyone loses.
Monday, May 8 9:06 am
My theory is she got so stressed out about not being able to deliver the book on time that she started plagiarizing a book she thought no one knew about. The stress made her stupid enough to convince herself she’d never get caught.
Monday, May 8 11:34 am
I was thinking she may have read it and forgotten she read it so she may have unconsciously plaigerized. I still think she should be expelled.
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