Writing an essay without including a bibliography is a sure way to earn the wrath of an English teacher. Or at least an incomplete grade, if not worse. But Neal Taparia, a student at Hinsdale Central ...

One way of looking at a doctoral program in anthropology (or in anything else) is as one of those "function" problems in math, where a number goes into a box and comes out as a different number, and ...

Like most journalists, I almost never have to create footnotes or bibliographies for regular stories. And we wear that non-footnote-ness as a badge of honor — “Our reporting is the thing,” we say.

In the final week of teaching a college writing class this past semester, I failed two students for plagiarism. Neither was doing well in the class, but they were going to scrape by with D’s and be ...