MateoPlagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty (1995) https://surface.syr.edu/wp/7/
Plagiarism, Originality, Assemblage (2007) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222690695_Plagiarism_originality_assemblage
Claudine Gay went to Exeter, Princeton, Stanford, and Harvard. With that educational pedigree she either should have known better or she learned long ago that is how it is done. (I’m inclined towards the latter.)
Hypothesis: plagiaristic habits are encouraged by mindlessly assigned 10–20 page term papers that result in the production of mindless text by sleep-deprived undergraduates.
The keystone assignment for my History of Anthropology seminar was due mid-semester (participants were less harried), was an annotated bibliography (“your own words” was the only compositional option), and produced by 2–3 people (reflection about the nature of authorship was baked in).
The sole author term paper genre has its place but is hardly the only way to cultivate the ability to synthesize or to encourage compositional skills.