Plagarism

[unforth]

So I just discovered a case of plagarism between two of the books I'm doing research in. One of them completely copies most of a paragraph word for word (it's a list, but still) without changing the order or anything, without the use of quotation marks. The book that's been taken from is credited in the bibliography, but no other indication is given.

Wow.

This is why we use footnotes/end notes, people...

Comments

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Drag that little ^()(*&^ into the office and give them what for!! And then write them up and tell their advisor and give them an F!

Oooops! Sorry. Previous paragraph brought to you by Serious Teacher Mode. :)

And like wow.

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Oh, this isn't students, this is professional published books that I'm using for a research paper. Unfortunately, they are also almost 30 years old, so I don't imagine there's anything to do for it. :)

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Oh I realized that and I sympathize. I just think it is funny and odd. And so when I hear about plagarism do I go into teacher mode. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Even footnoting/endnoting sources doesn't excuse lifting paragraphs, iirc. A crying shame when scholars can't give credit where it's due.