Thanks to those of you who responded to my question about FAQs on
plagiarism. Here is the current list of questions I have gathered. If you
can add to these please do - and I will circulate the result.
Why can't I use his words if they are better than any I could think of?
What difference does it make whether I put a note here to say where I
got the information from rather than just include it in a bibliography
at the end?
What if I can't remember which article/book I found it in?
Why is it necessary to use a "reference" I have said which person had
the idea originally?
Why is it necessary to put in all the details, surely The Times,
November 1999, is enough?
We were taught to copy huge chunks out of books at school. Why is it
wrong?
What's the point of stating exactly where the information came from?
Does it really matter if I just forget?
It is my work. I've changed the words in the article to my own.
How do you prove plagiarism? That is to say:
how closely does one piece of work have to resemble another to be
considered plagiaristic?
- should one take into account the possibility of unwitting duplication of
another's work? And if so, to what extent?
Yeah! How not to get caught!!!!!
M.Hepworth
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
LE11 3TU
United Kingdom
Tel: 01509 228051
Fax: 01509 223053
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