The review is good. The current state of affairs in writing is changing from what we used to believe to be ethical. It seems that the culture is asking writers (or any producers of highly distributed media, not necessarily just writers) to be not creators of all the ideas they produce, but rather endorsers of the ideas that they have strung together to form a narrative. The onus for someone wanting to cry PLAGIARISM! then falls upon the consumer of this distributed media to claim that he/she has been damaged by the fact that he or she has accepted these ideas as coming solely from the "author". Caveot emptor has moved to caveot lector.
Bill Scott >>> "Christopher D. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/08/07 6:02 PM >>> Review of recent books on plagiarism. My favorite factoid is: "The section of the University of Oregon <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_oregon/index.html?inline=nyt-org> handbook that deals with plagiarism, for example, was copied from the Stanford handbook." http://tinyurl.com/y88wnc or http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/education/edlife/07books.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/education/edlife/07books.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin> -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo "All warfare is based on deception." Sun-tzu, The Art of War, I.18 ============================= --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
