Oliver Bateman Does the Work

Oliver Bateman Does the Work

The Work of Plagiarism and the Work of Selling Out

When everyone's a thief and everyone's for sale, the words lose their sting

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Oliver Bateman Does the Work
Jul 31, 2025
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Do the work of cutting and pasting the other work

The other day a friend shared a story about someone getting thousands of views for reading another person’s essay word for word. Not her ideas, not a similar take — the actual sentences and data points, lifted wholesale. She'd changed the title and swapped out a few adjectives, the way a high school stude…

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