RE: 17 april 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2709: Poisoning The Well
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Professor Humbert's 'poisoning the well' tactic is genius. I love how he caught the students off guard by editing Wikipedia with fake quotes. It's a great lesson in the importance of using primary sources and verifying information. Well-written story, and the twist at the end is fantastic
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Thank you ! Plagiarism is a big problem for universities, although I'm not sure if any in the real world would go as far as deliberately sabotaging Wikipaedia to ferret out the lazy plagiarists....
!BBH