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I have spent the last several days preparing to teach English 101 for the first time. I’m looking forward to meeting my students and teaching them the correct ways to do research. My group at orientation has spent a long time talking about plagiarism. So it strikes me as somewhat ironic that when following a referral to my blog I found that one of my old posts has been plagiarized in its entirety with no credit along with a deeplink to the image that accompanied the post. The person changed around the initials and changed a few lines to add her details instead of mine and otherwise copied the post completely. It makes me wonder about cases of plagiarism that I might not have easy access to catching. More than anything, though, it makes me really really mad. I’m not sure if I should publicly shame this person or instead wait for them to take the post down and make an apology like I asked. If you want to exercise some Google-fu and find out the offending party, it won’t be hard. She deeplinked to my images so it comes up in current Technorati results, the post in question is this one.