Just an institutional point, but I think professors should no longer be
the ones who track, document and pursue these cases. Given how fast
technology is changing, and given that, really, plagiarism has no more
to do with English than it does with History or Political Science, I
think institutions should invest in a "Plagiarism Cop"; a position
associated with information technology / library sciences, whose
dedicated purpose would be to police potential cases (which we can spot,
and would be more likely to do if we had support), and also to educate
on gray areas of citation (long sentence, sorry). Does any university
do this?
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>Some are on the web and some are on Project Muse or JSTOR (to which
>Columbia subscribes). I think Peter has a good point about copyrighted
>material. Mary Ellen Lamb's "Apologizing for pleasure in Sidney's 'Apology
>for Poetry'" (published in *Criticism*) and Judith Owens' "The Poetics of
>Accommodation in Spenser's 'Epithalamion'" (from SEL 2000) are availaable
>on the plain Web. At least I think those were the ones I could print
>directly from the Web without going to the Columbia website and using my
>password for Project Muse--there are ads on the top of the page. It's a
>dilemma, no? Fame and influence on the Web or intellectual property
>protection (well, sort of) when on legitimate sites like JSTOR and Project
>Muse. Also, some libraries can't aford those, which raises all sorts of
>other issues. This is important to me at the moment, because *Spenser
>Studies* turned down one of these sites and I think we need to
>(re)consider the whole matter of our Spenser annual and the Web. Why
>should our authors not be plagiarized as much as those on JSTOR, the Web,
>or Project Muse? OK, just kidding. But still . . . Anne P.
>
>
>
>>My first reaction to reading this list is: at least these miscreants have
>>good taste! However, I have a serious question: are the essays in question
>>by these estimable scholars all available on the web? Are the articles
>>being reproduced without the author's permission? If so, I wonder if a
>>concerted effort by scholars along with their publishers to remove
>>copyrighted material from the website might be in order.
>>
>>Peter C. Herman
>>
>>
>>
>>At 12:40 PM 6/1/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Deceptively simple style indeed! My own horrible pedagogical experience
>>>this term is THREE cases of serious plagiarism and I've wasted time I
>>>should be spending on overdue scholarly work just tracking it down. Since
>>>this was a Renaissance course it's peculiar to see so many friends in
>>>this
>>>context. So far I've seen bits stolen from, let's see, Mary Ellen Lamb,
>>>Catherine Bates, Elizabeth McCutcheon, Judith Owens, Harry Berger, Alison
>>>Chapman, and Ashgate's promo material for Dana Gibbs. No Prescott, which
>>>sugests minimal prudence; no Quitslund, Beth, which suggests that your
>>>stuff is too deceptively simple? Deceptively complex? What gets me is the
>>>stitching together of so many sources (and those are just the ones with
>>>named authors). Wouldn't it be easier just to think? One set of
>>>plagiarisms appeared on an in-class exam; the assistant dean of students
>>>(a Renaissance scholar himself) points out to me that with modern
>>>handheld
>>>and way cool electronic devices you can access the web from right there
>>>in
>>>the back of the classroom. Obviously, I need to get with the times. It's
>>>good to see the names of colleagues in Renaissance studies whom I know or
>>>at least admire, but not in this context! Anne Prescott.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Being on the quarter system, and thus neck-deep in final papers, II
>>>>
>>>>
>>>just
>>>
>>>
>>>>came across an essay from my Renaissance survey that opened with the
>>>>following sentence: "Spenser's Faerie Queene is written in a
>>>>
>>>>
>>>deceptively
>>>
>>>
>>>>simple style."
>>>>
>>>>It does make me wonder what else she was reading this quarter.
>>>>
>>>>Beth
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>Beth Quitslund
>>>>Assistant Professor of English
>>>>
>>>>Department of English
>>>>Ohio University
>>>>Athens, OH 45701
>>>>phone: (740) 593-2829
>>>>FAX: (740) 593-2818
>>>>
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