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0 pointsjfghi3y ago0 comments

To me it seems like academic papers force people to back up every statement with a quote and agree with assigned readings. This style of writing leads to unoriginal results.

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skybrian3y ago· 1 in thread

Isn't that how non-fiction is supposed to work? It's about finding interesting evidence that adds up to something, not making stuff up.

Though, ideally by finding interesting evidence in books that aren't in the assigned reading.

jfghiOP3y ago

It is, but I think that it would lead to a lot of false positives for automated plagiarism detection.

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