Neri Oxman, a former star professor at MIT, admitted to lifting passages from other scholars' work in her dissertation. Business Insider found 28 additional instances of plagiarism in her dissertation ...

For nearly two weeks now, Glenn Poshard, the president of Southern Illinois University, has been defending himself against allegations of plagiarism. At issue is his 1984 dissertation, which the ...

The punctuation mark that annoys people the most is, without a doubt, the apostrophe. Whole books have been written lamenting atrocities like “five carrot’s and three kiwi’s” (for the record, that ...

NEW YORK — Just days after admitting his latest bestseller includes passages copied from another historian’s work, author Stephen Ambrose is being cited again for a similar trespass in an earlier work ...

Quotation marks are used to set off a person's words, whether spoken or written. They are placed at both the beginning and end of the quote. Ex: Sue remarked, "I'll meet you at the movies," A comma is ...

Everyone knows that the world’s material resources — food, water, oil — are distributed unequally, but few realize that the same is true for punctuation. Take quotation marks: Some forms of writing, ...

Double quotation marks are used for direct quotations and titles of compositions such as books, plays, movies, songs, lectures and TV shows. They also can be used to indicate irony and introduce an ...