My students are bright enough to produce whole papers from carefully
selected quotations. If they included citations and quotation marks,
they are not plagiarizing, but neither are they writing.
In science, we are biased against quotes. This is because we
paraphrase. This isn't just to
This is another very important issue. I have reviewers tell me that I
could not cite papers because they were not peer reviewed. So, to
properly attribute the ideas and the data, I am supposed to give the
citation in the text, but giving the full citation in text every time I
cite something
Hopefully my final 2-cents... at a roadside meeting with a state trooper,
Ignorance of the law does not excuse you from responsibility. Still,
innocent plagiarism is an opportunity for education but does not absolve
one from guilt nor responsibility.
Scott
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While I understand Claras reservation, I think we should think that
there should be a larger role for quotes.
Finding the right words is difficult and if somebody has found a genial
way of expressing himself, why not use his words as a quote.
It is, however, true that if quotes make up more
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I agree that paraphrasing requires one to understand the material one
references, as well as express it more concisely ( in the interests of space
).
However, sometimes I have come across papers where the authors misinterpreted
the original results or ideas, and thereby this misinterpretation was
Many thanks to all who responded.
I have tried to include all of the responses while limiting repetition. My
original question is first
David Welch..
At 07:31 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote:
Hi
I have been analyzing old field seedling and sapling composition and
trying
to compare it with
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Try these two handouts from the University of Toronto College Writing
Workshop, one of the best of the writing and grammar sites on the web that I
use for my classes:
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http://www.utoronto.ca/ucwriting/paraphrase.html
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On 10/4/06, David
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Scott writes:
Hopefully my final 2-cents... at a roadside meeting with a state trooper,
Ignorance of the law does not excuse you from responsibility. Still,
innocent plagiarism is an opportunity for education but does not absolve
one from guilt nor responsibility.
Einstein once said, The
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