<p>did you actaully go out and get her book and compare it with sloppy firsts in context? read both all the way through?</p>
<p>try doing that before jumping bandwagon on something you don't fully understand.</p>
<p>bobow98, are you trying to defend her? There are FAR FAR FAR more scrupulous authors out who wrote books themselves without the extent of plagarism evidently practiced by Kaavya. </p>
<p>I realize she has stress in her life and I feel sorry for her for having this happen to her, but if she is as smart as the article claims, she should have had enough sense not to do it.</p>
<p>What she did was lawfully illegal and morally disgraceful.</p>
<p>I just don't understand how there is any doubt that she did in fact plagiarize. The evidence is irrefutable. And reading the books in context holds absolutely no relevance in a case like this. Just by looking at the excerpts, one can easily tell that the words on the page simply are not her own. It's even clear where she awkwardly changed the wording in an attempt to put some more distance between her work and McCafferty's. There shouldn't even be a debate about this.</p>
<p>I go to BA. Teachers bragged about her my sophmore year. They told us not to be like her Junior year. It was rather funny honestly. And yes, no one has any doubts including her former teachers that she DID IN FACT PLAGIARIZE.</p>