On October 4, the "Yale Daily News" reported that it had found nine passages in the book, some more than a couple paragraphs long, that were identical or similar to those in the "Times" and four other publications. In reference to Ayres's case and a similar one in Illinois, George Washington University professor of English Margaret Soltan wrote in Inside Higher Ed: "Both men simply stuck passages from other writers into their text when it suited them, and gave either minimal or no attribution. In some of the passages in question, neither used quotation marks, even when they quoted at length, verbatim."