Yeah, bummer that Lyle is being a whistle-blower, but really does he have a right to? Sure, someone re-wrote a good page or two from one of his books, without any sort of hint that it was paraphrased, and at the end it says he was influenced by Lyle, not that he changed a couple words and put down exactly what Lyle said.
Being that it is basic stuff he could have said it differently.
And yeah, something like this would not fly in any school anywhere in the country. You get an F, person who helped you gets an F, and hopefully your not kicked out of whatever program your in.
Seriously, this book wasn’t written in a day, sure people are busy, but I’m sure as Alwyn was re-writing Lyle’s work he could have put a few astrix’s and reminders on his drafts that what he wrote wasn’t his. But he didn’t he submitted it to his editors as-is and the editor had no idea where it came from, just that it was writing on a page and sounded/looked good.
So yeah, it’s Alwyn’s fault, Lyle could have handled it better, and hopefully something like this doesn’t happen again.
And this sort of thing is worse for those of us who have been through school and had similar things happen, you spend hours researching and writing your reports and then the next year a friend of yours is taking the same class, same assignment. Now if the guy just takes your paper and re-writes that shit, it’s a god damn insult and I would not be that persons friend anymore. But if he explained his situation and asked for my paper to help his write his paper, I would probably ablige, so long as the paper he writes sounds nothing like mine.
If I saw that my buddies paper was that similar to mine, I would be frickin’ pissed! Remain friends and all, but last time I let him use any of my resources…
