Professorial Plagiarism?

Here's a dirty little secret coming out into the light of day. Any sneaky thing that you've thought of as a student, professors thought of years ago, and we do it more smoothly than you do. Take the case of--how shall we describe it?--"creative acquisition of scholarly materials." With the publish-or-perish gun pointed at the career's heads, many professors have succumbed to the temptation of what would, in any other situation, be called plagiarism. (It's called plagiarism in this situation as well.) Now, it seems, in order to avoid embarrassment over such materials, journals are taking the battle to their writers. In "Journals May Soon Use Antiplagiarism Software on Their Authors" you can read about how the professorial version of Turnitin is being turned on the tenure-track types whose work might be suspect. Maybe I'll have to think twice about submitting that article to College English!