Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Plagiarism Detection Services Are Money Well Spent," by Stephanie Vie (@digirhet). It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: Blackboard, Creative Commons, plagiarism, SafeAssign, Turnitin

Stephanie Vie is Associate Dean of the Outreach College and Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is the co-editor of Social Writing/Social Media: Publics, Presentations, and Pedagogies, and her scholarship has been published in numerous journals like Computers and Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, Kairos, and First Monday. She is the 2016 recipient of the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field and the 2018 winner of the 7C Committee Technology Innovator Award. She tweets at @digirhet. (2020 bio)

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