Death by a thousand cuts

It seems a modern affliction: students believe it’s sufficient to produce text, regardless of its quality and without regard to its provenance. But text that’s been typed without checking—and repeatedly rechecking—its meaning, coherence, lucidity, fluidity, spelling, and grammar, and text that’s misappropriated or reproduced holus-bolus, even if credited, shows disrespect to the reader and disdain for education.

Not every modern student suffers this affliction, but left untreated, this disease demeans a community of learners and diminishes its accomplishments. What an ignoble end: death by a thousand cuts—and pastes.