possible plagiarism

[frazier melissa]

Dear Colleagues:

I am hoping someone out there can help me.  Yesterday I received what
purported to be the draft of a final paper on Solzhenitsyn and Tolstoi.  No
eighteen-year-old could have written this paper and certainly not in the
one week this student gave it; unfortunately I have very little time to
figure out where he got it from, and I am hoping that some of you might
have some suggestions -- in particular I know very little about possible
Internet sources.  The paper argues Solzhenitsyn's debt to 19th c Russian
writers and in particular Tolstoi with special attention to _Cancer Ward_
and _War and Peace_.  Similarities between the two authors mentioned
include didacticism, use of characters (like Pierre) to make the reader
feel familiar with unfamiliar situations (like Borodino), ideas about the
value of education and ideas about love (here the author points out a
difference, that Tolstoi argues for love of family and Solzhenitsyn for
love of all).  The paper concludes with a nod to Dostoevsky and the
question of the existence of evil in _Cancer Ward_.  While the paper
doesn't actually cite them, the bibliography includes an article
(unfortunately not in our library) by Kathryn Feuer, "Solzhenitsyn and the
Legacy of Tolstoy" -- other names on the list include Belinkov, Harari,
Weisdorff.

If any of this rings a bell with any of you, or if you know of any possible
websites where my student might have found this paper, I would be very
grateful if you could let me know off-line at mfrazier at mail.slc.edu.

Thank you,

Melissa Frazier