dennis roberts said on 12/5/02 11:04 AM: >i think the term ... self plagiarism ... is an oxymoron
I'm willing to admit that maybe I don't fully understand the subtlties of plagiarism, but it seems to me that plagiarism is the use of other's work without attribution *or their permission*. Seems to me that you can always give yourself permission to re-use your earlier writing (excepting, of course, academic work which is supposed to represent new work for a course). Therefore, I agree with Dennis, that self plagiarism is an oxymoron. Paul . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
