Category: Articles, Education, Ethics, Linguistics, Resources for Attorneys What Plagiarism Is – and Is Not TASA ID: 1475 A brief definition: plagiarism is knowingly appropriating another’s original words and/or ideas and presenting them as one’s own.As a student, scholar, and professional writer, I have long been familiar with the standards governing academic honesty and plagiarism. I applied these to many academic publications, including my master’s and doctoral theses. I dealt with student plagiarism at various times in my professorial career (1967-1980), and later, as a speechwriter and corporate communicator, I applied these standards to ensure that the content of my work products, including professional articles, was either original or properly attributed. Read more
Category: Articles, Education, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, School Safety/Violence, Security LUCK IS NOT A SCHOOL SECURITY PROGRAM TASA ID: 915 Not a week goes by without yet another security breach report involving a K-12 school, the details surrounding such events as sexual assault, knife attacks, social media threats, guns carried onto school property or an actual shooting. These reports are from every part of the country. Read more
Category: Articles, Education, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Working With Experts Law Ethnography TASA ID: 921 PrefaceAs a practicing legal anthropologist for 40 years, I have always been curious about how lawyers think. Are they really so different from the rest of us? I enrolled in law school believing that becoming a 1L, a first year law student, would be the best way to learn about law and its practitioners. I also suspected that it would be really cool to get a law degree. The following work will disabuse both you and me of that idea. Read more
Category: Education, Resources for Experts Once Upon A Time: Anecdote of an Educational Expert TASA ID: 408 Let me tell you a story about the first case on which I worked…a long time ago and even before I became familiar with TASA. The story will, perhaps, be useful to client attorneys and experts alike. Many years ago, while operating the company which I founded (sort of a head hunter for educators) I had served as president of the National Association of Teachers Agencies (now defunct). Shortly after my tenure in that position, I received a phone call from an attorney in Kansas City, MO. I’m in New York. Read more
