Comments on: So What Does it Take to Lose a University of London Ph.D? http://russian-front.com/2011/12/01/so-what-does-it-take-to-lose-a-university-of-london-ph-d/ Fri, 11 May 2012 21:13:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: London PhD Holder http://russian-front.com/2011/12/01/so-what-does-it-take-to-lose-a-university-of-london-ph-d/comment-page-1/#comment-1142 London PhD Holder Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:47:32 +0000 http://russian-front.com/?p=563#comment-1142 'The PhD thesis has been annotated to show where attribution or references should have been made.' If one takes all the instances of passages that should have been noted as citations and places them either in quote marks or as set-out quotes, how much original text will there be? Very little, I wager. Perhaps the most fitting thing now to happen to 'Dr' Saif Gaddafi is for him to be made to research and write a PhD thesis in the manner that I and many thousands of others have done. Now that <i>would</i> be a punishment. ‘The PhD thesis has been annotated to show where attribution or references should have been made.’

If one takes all the instances of passages that should have been noted as citations and places them either in quote marks or as set-out quotes, how much original text will there be? Very little, I wager.

Perhaps the most fitting thing now to happen to ‘Dr’ Saif Gaddafi is for him to be made to research and write a PhD thesis in the manner that I and many thousands of others have done. Now that would be a punishment.

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