Plagiarism and Hermione

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Rita Winston <catlady at w...> wrote:

> I was *astonished* that you didn't recognize the Browne semi-quote 
-- I mean, you're a grad student in English Lit...

Nope, not English Lit, English rhetoric and composition, which means 
I've read a lot of theorists.  My secondary "specialty" field will be 
creative writing (not a lot of theory, mainly practice there), and my 
cognate will be education (more theorists).  While I like 
seventeenth-century British literature a lot, you can't possibly read 
and know everything.  I'm in my second year of graduate school and am 
reading Browne now... so I can't possibly feel bad about not having 
known beforehand.

Don't sell yourself short, Rita.  Even if you don't have the 
parchment, you are definitely very well read.  You've also had a 
couple of extra decades to read things than I have... I'm 23 and read 
voraciously, but I simply haven't got around to everything yet.  <g>

If my tutor says there ought to have been attribution, then I believe 
him.  He's an Oxford scholar who has published quite a few books, not 
to mention an excellent Shakespeare actor.  I'm sure he knows the 
protocol better than I... unlike the Bible or mythology, Browne is 
known to a subset of scholars and not to the popular audience who is 
attending Barnes' play.

Thanks for calling me to the carpet, though... keeps my quill sharp.

--Ebony