The Wikipedia entry for "A Lesson in Vengeance" has a really weird brief description in that it talks about it being set in a "New England Boarding school" but then talks about the main character "finishing their final year of secondary". So far as I'm aware, secondary school/secondary education if definitely British terminology rather than US, where they would talk about high school. Perhaps this is reflective of the British origins of US private boarding schools? It just struck me as a rather odd presentation (and these brief descriptions are usually taken from the blurb on the book cover, more or less. I suppose this could have been written on Wikipedia by a Brit and reflect their terminology.
More on terminology. I detest the term "self-plagiarism". It's become somewhat common parlance but it really does not make logical sense. In academic work, its republishing existing work (which is against the rules of many academic journals) but it's not as serious an offence as plagiarism (which is misrepresenting someone else's work as one's own and since in academia reputation is almost everything, that's a serious sin). In other forms of writing, re-using one's previous work can be annoying for those who've already read it, but I don't thin it deserves a label like "plagiarism". It's like the use of the term "piracy" for unauthorised sharing of copyrighted material https://stallman.org/articles/end-war-on-sharing.html .
Do you use some sort of app for those "lists of books" pictures?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
momijizukamori and
no subject
Date: 2022-02-28 02:14 am (UTC)More on terminology. I detest the term "self-plagiarism". It's become somewhat common parlance but it really does not make logical sense. In academic work, its republishing existing work (which is against the rules of many academic journals) but it's not as serious an offence as plagiarism (which is misrepresenting someone else's work as one's own and since in academia reputation is almost everything, that's a serious sin). In other forms of writing, re-using one's previous work can be annoying for those who've already read it, but I don't thin it deserves a label like "plagiarism". It's like the use of the term "piracy" for unauthorised sharing of copyrighted material https://stallman.org/articles/end-war-on-sharing.html .
Do you use some sort of app for those "lists of books" pictures?