Thread: New Leaf August 2018 Discussion • The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon
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Old 08-22-2018, 12:08 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Moreover, four of the five footnotes for the entire Christmas chapter in Halifax reference Shattered City and in this manner: pp. 113-14, pp. 115-16, pp. 116-18 and pp. 117-118! To me, this says Bacon essentially sat down and transcribed the entire chapter, merely tweaking the language and not so very much at that as shown above. What has Bacon added? A repetition of significant dates (because we'd have forgotten that the explosion took place on the 6th otherwise) and a reminder that December 17 is eight days before Christmas.

The fifth and last footnote for the chapter, I doubt anyone will be surprised to learn, is to Barss.

All of the parts of Halifax that rely on Kitz as their source read like that.

If I saw work like this from one of my students, they would be failing my class and headed to honor court for plagiarism.
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