Plagiarized War College Thesis

[Viper1]

I read his thesis, and it looks like complete crap. A master's thesis... for the War College... and it's only 14 double-spaced pages? Seriously?

For purposes of comparison, one of the classes I teach at West Point, the introductory to International Relations class that EVERY cadet has to take to graduate, has a requirement of 15 pages. That's a core course in an undergrad program. My first master's thesis was at least 40 pages, the one I did at NDIC was more than 100 pages (IIRC), and at Yale we didn't even have a thesis requirement but we still had to do at least one paper of at least 25 pages.

I'm embarrassed for the War College that this is what they think passes for graduate-level scholarship.

This is my professor agreeing with peers who've told me to pursue civilian education. This persona has worked with many of the foremost minds in International Relations and Diplomacy (e.g. Kissinger, John Mearsheimer, David Lake, etc): "I do agree with the assessment of taking a higher degree in a civilian discipline. The Army is everything now but you will eventually retire and want to take your efforts elsewhere without having to redo them."

This is why, as stated in my earlier e-mail, Military Master's degrees are not taken seriously with civilian academia.

 

[DA SWO]

I'll have to ask the boss how long her final paper was.

Don't recall it being a thesis, just a lot of short papers.

They (IIRC) were keen on brevity, and that was always the challenge, getting a complicated issue presented in a short paper.

He may have gotten a pass on the paper because he was deployed.

Which means the AWC should look at changing how the Distance Learning Program gets conducted again.

 

[Viper1]

http://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2014/07/veterans_response_to_us_army_w.html

 

[AWP]

BuzzFeed of all places cans an editor.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/26/media/buzzfeed-plagiarism/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith said he and his colleagues had identified "41 instances of sentences or phrases copied, word for word, from other sites, many of them inappropriate sources in the first place," during a review of about 500 posts by Johnson.

 

[Viper1]

BuzzFeed of all places cans an editor.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/26/media/buzzfeed-plagiarism/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

What's worse is that he plagiarized from Wikipedia and Answers.com. Taken down by the consumer: the ultimate check and balance. Wow.

 

[RetPara]

the one I did at NDIC was more than 100 pages (IIRC)

NDIC is the fine educational establishment formerly known as DIC, JMIC, and Lord only knows how many other names over the years?

 

[Marauder06]

NDIC is the fine educational establishment formerly known as DIC, JMIC, and Lord only knows how many other names over the years?

It's had lots of names in the past... after I graduated it stopped being NDIC and is now NIU, National Intelligence University.

 

[Rapid]

How do people think they can get away with this in today's age? Plagiarism is so easy to detect these days, especially if you just fucking copy/paste! That's the most basic and easiest shit to detect.

And now, some universities are using today's technology to go back and check work which was done before the anti-plagiarism software existed (when people thought they were safe).

 

[TLDR20]

How do people think they can get away with this in today's age? Plagiarism is so easy to detect these days, especially if you just fucking copy/paste! That's the most basic and easiest shit to detect.

And now, some universities are using today's technology to go back and check work which was done before the anti-plagiarism software existed (when people thought they were safe).

Even at community colleges students must submit their work to online anti-plagiarism sites. Ugh.

 

[Crusader74]

What's worse is that he plagiarized from Wikipedia and Answers.com. Taken down by the consumer: the ultimate check and balance. Wow.

Sweet divine !! WTF!! Has this guy got no integrity?? Anything he has ever done good is overshadowed by his shire lack of integrity ...

 

[Centermass]

Evidently, the outcome...as it should be.

Sen. John Walsh quits Montana Senate race

Link

 

[LibraryLady]

Good for him.

LL

 

[DA SWO]

They told him to quit so they could try and salvage the seat. Nothing honorable about this. Let's see how the voter's respond.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I think it coming out now is rather political. Blackboard was like the only game in town then, and I had a lot of profs that had us submit papers to blackboard in 2009. So if the War College didn't do that, shame on them. Yeah he cheated, shame on him. Awarding a master's degree and taking seven years to bring this shit up: shame on the War College.

 

[Marine0311]

Evidently, the outcome...as it should be.

Sen. John Walsh quits Montana Senate race

Link

I want to punch a wall. It reads to me like he indirectly claimed PTSD.

 

[BloodStripe]

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/10/10/john-walsh-plagiarism-war-college-degree/

 

[Salt USMC]

Holy shit! Accountability!

 

[AWP]

Holy shit! Accountability!

Don't get used to it, this is America.

 

[Salt USMC]

Don't get used to it, this is America.

It's refreshing every once in a while.

 

[DA SWO]

FWIW- They will send a guy with a grinder to grind his name off the brass plaque that hangs on the main building. They will do it (if they haven't already done it) when students are present.

It's a big deal.