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Plagiarism policies have ‘chilling effect’ on student speech and research

Lauren Stephen
8 min readJan 17, 2019

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Vague and overly-broad academic integrity policies hinder learning and infringe on student rights

Sharing writing with peers is an essential part of the writing process. This is true no matter one’s level of ability. Sharing is often the end goal of writing, whether it is an assignment for class, a business letter, blog post, tweet, or…

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Lauren Stephen

Writer, editor, technical writer, part-time lecturer, and semi-professional stand-up comic based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.