"Robert J. MacG. Dawson" wrote: > > > More concretely but maybe less relevantly, most universities and schools > > have a rule that students cannot gain credit for similar pieces of work; > > i.e. I've seen it specified that repeating part of an essay is > > plagiarism. > > Would this apply if proper citation were given?
I suppose not; but in a teaching situation, I assume that the assessor would need a copy of the cited text. Of course, any piece of text greater than a simple phrase would, in addition, need to be included in quotation marks -- and permissions sought ;-) In undergraduate courses, other than arts and humanities (where ideas are the primary currency), I'd assume that such rules are more honoured in the breech than the observance. Best regards, Jon C. -- Jonathan G Campbell BT48 7PG [EMAIL PROTECTED] 028 7126 6125 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jg.campbell/ . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
