On 8 Jan 2007 at 18:02, Christopher D. Green wrote: > Review of recent books on plagiarism. My favorite factoid is: > > "The section of the University of Oregon handbook that deals with > plagiarism, for example, was copied from the Stanford handbook."
Yes. I worked on a revision of the plagiarism regulations at our university. The first step of our committee was to review regulations at other universities and, not surprisingly, ours ended up incorporating some of what we felt were the best rules from elsewhere. I appreciated the irony of including unattributed material in a plagiarism definition and added a reference. I was roundly ridiculed at the university Senate for my trouble. And to some extent, the ridiculers are right. A university calendar (prospectus) is not really the place for scholarly references. I bet that many university calendars contain such unacknowledged "borrowings" of critical regulations (probably mission statements too). Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
