Mike Palij wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:09:02 -0700 wrote: > >> Mike Palij wrote: >> >>> Okay. Could you please specify the conditions under which you find >>> plagiarism in a student's work acceptable and would not comment on it? >>> From a relativistic perspective, some forms of plagiarism would appear >>> to be acceptable (indeed, on TiPS some have argued that >>> self-plagiarism by a researcher can be justified). Under what >>> conditions would a "recycled" paper, essay, or presentation be >>> acceptable? >>> >> Funny you should bring up precisely this example. An article on just >> this came up in Inside Higher Ed just the other day. It specifies >> exactly the conditions under which our particular, cultural prohibitions >> might not be appropriate to enforce: >> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/16/cheat >> > > I must have missed where in the article it says that a student enrolled > in a U.S. or Canadian college is allowed to plagiarize papers, the > initial paragraph notwithstanding. Who said anything about being enrolled in a US or Canadian university? The question was whether ethical standards such as these are relative, e.g., to their cultural contexts. This article demonstrates that they are. If you limit the range of your consideration to a single cultural base, then (Shazam!) you're going find to that they appear to be absolute. This harkens back to an earlier discussion we had about the proper use of begging the question.
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