{"id":4364,"date":"2012-06-22T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2012-06-22T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T22:22:20","slug":"british-university-lecturer-faces-wrath-of-choronzon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4364","title":{"rendered":"British University Lecturer Faces Wrath of Choronzon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joanne Bedford, who teaches creative writing at The Open University<\/a> in the UK, has a simple writing technique:<\/a>‘<\/p>\n

\u2022 Select
\n\u2022 Copy
\n\u2022 Paste<\/p>\n

Then you change a few words. Evidently that is the part that requires university-level instruction, since her students certainly arrive knowing the first part.<\/p>\n

It’s one thing to plagiarize Dylan Thomas<\/a> as well as some lesser-known (but alive and angry)\u00a0 British writers. But read to the end and you see that she also stands accused of plagiarizing Aleister Crowley.<\/p>\n

Which of his works?<\/em> Inquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n

By the way, Choronzon has a Wikipedia entry<\/a>. (Via University Diaries<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joanne Bedford, who teaches creative writing at The Open University in the UK, has a simple writing technique:‘ \u2022 Select \u2022 Copy \u2022 Paste Then you change a few words. Evidently that is the part that requires university-level instruction, since her students certainly arrive knowing the first part. It’s one thing to plagiarize Dylan Thomas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,21,12],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-england","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-18o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6128,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6128","url_meta":{"origin":4364,"position":0},"title":"Orthography and the Modern Pagan","author":"Chas S. 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