The Book of Joe, by Jeff Wilser: on Education


Joe Biden: College plagiarism was honest (but careless) mistake

[In law school,] by his own admission, Biden was "sloppy and arrogant." He was so casual with his coursework, in fact, that when he wrote his legal papers, he didn't know how to cite articles. This got him in trouble. When a classmate accused Biden of plagiarizing passages from the Fordham Law Review, the faculty summoned him for an explanation. "The truth was, I hadn't been to class enough to know how to do citations in a legal brief," he later confessed. He DID cite the Fordham Law Review in his paper, but technically, you're supposed to cite the original source every time you use a quote. He didn't. It seemed to be an honest (but careless) mistake, and the dean exonerated him, writing that "in spite of what happened, I am of the opinion that this is a perfectly sound young man." (Soon the issue was forgotten, until it would later make a damning cameo in a presidential election..)
Source: The Book of Joe, by Jeff Wilser, p. 26-27 Oct 24, 2017

  • The above quotations are from The Book of Joe
    The Life, Wit, and (Sometimes Accidental) Wisdom of Joe Biden
    by Jeff Wilser    .
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