I'm mainly interested in moving from student plagiarism back to
plagiarism in submitted manuscripts.
Are there any data on plagiarism frequencies in publications or
manuscripts submitted for publication? Or is plagiarism such a dirty
secret that no one wants to talk about it? I've found
The Ecological Society of America's Code of Ethics
(http://www.esa.org/aboutesa/governance/codeofethics.php)
clearly addresses plagerism
Ecologists will not plagiarize in verbal or written communication, but
will give full and proper credit to the works and ideas of others, and
make every
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One suggestion is to reproduce verbatim (with citation of course!!!) the
institution's policy on plagiarism and academic integrity in every syllabus
handed out. I do this and review this when handing out syllabi at the
beginning of the course. The next step I take is lecturing on citing
literature
Dear Ecologgers:
It might seem odd to say this, but the problem is
that in our education (as in yours) knowledge has been
at the top, NOT values (or ethics for that matter).
But then again, japanese (that supposebly do stress
values before knowledge) also have been known to trip
on
Robert et al;
The comments below pertain only to scholarly publication and NOT
classroom/student plagiarism:
How does one distinguish between plagiarism and contemporaneous
development of similar ideas?
Leibniz and Newton both developed calculus during the same period and
recent evidence
Hello all,
for quite some time i have had some confusion over quoting literature, and
perhaps this plagiarism thread could offer some ideas..
If one were to quote a paper, i have heard that one is NOT supposed to directly
lift a sentence or para or any parts thereof, even though the paper would
I have always been somewhat frightened by the zero-tolerance policy of
academic institutions toward plagiarism. This is, in part, because I
feel it would be very easy to accidentally commit plagiarism by simply
forgetting to insert a citation. In my view, there are at least five
types of
Hi David,
You might try Nick Gotelli's Ecosim software. It offers
1. Co-Occurrence
2. Macroecology
3. Niche Overlap
4. Size Overlap
5. Species Diversity
6. Standard Tests
7. Guild Structure
Perhaps the Co-occurence program might help. I know it can handle a
large number of species.
Liane
At
There are many cases of scientists independently arriving at the same idea,
but normally plagiarism means that one has directly copied from anothers
work, as evidenced by similar or identical wording.
Theft of ideas is harder to prove. Sometimes someone is sitting on an idea,
then finds out
Bill,
Yes I'm aware of the semantic distinction but was providing innocent
examples that may have ostensibly been seen as scurrilous.
In the example you cite I would have been hard pressed not to issue a
formal complaint regarding the ethics of both the editor and the
board member, with
Hi David,
You might also look into PC-ORD software for multivariate analysis. It
works very well with many types of compositional data and can handle any
number of species. It includes multiple tests including MRPP, PermaANOVA
(multivariate ANOVA), and NMS. This program was developed by Bruce
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I have always been a bit unclear on when paraphrasing verges on =
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idea being expressed) and paraphrasing so as to avoid plagiarism and =
avoid the need for quotes (which seem lame when over-used), it is =
sometimes tempting to
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As I understand it, the reason for this is that in science the =20
precise words the original author used are not considered important, =20
but the ideas are. So you express the ideas in your own words and =20
give credit to their author. Often you can state the ideas in a way =20
more immediately
Hello,
Duke University has recently unveiled a Plagiarism Tutorial
(https://plagiarism. duke.edu) that all first year students must complete
before registering for Spring semester. While this type of tool might not
prevent intentional plagiarism, perhaps it will alert students to some of
the
Mark,
Your post reads so well I am tempted to consider plagiarism! :) Thank
you for a very thoughtful perspective. I was saddened to read that this
behavior is on the rise, but I agree with you: we can't throw out the
baby with the bathwater.
By the way, do I need a citation for that
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How do people feel about plagiarizing your own work? I once
reviewed a paper where 2/3 of the Discussion section was identical to
the author's Discussion section from his previous paper published in a
journal that held the copyright. The author even switched the order
of these identical
Hi David,
theres a few ways of working with this data: The recommendations to look
at PCord are good ones. Other alternatives are to google anosim you
can run this analysis in R, or purchase the software Primer, which is very
user friendly. PermMANOVA is available in PCord, but is also
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