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Monday, February 2, 2009

Plagiarizing a plagiarism policy?

Tony Cartledge tells this cautionary tale:

Apparently, someone on a committee devising a plagiarism policy for Southern Illinois University decided to take the easy way out -- and put forward substantial sections of a policy used by Indiana University. The only difference between the two is that SIU's definition of plagiarism takes a list of five points from IU's policy and puts them in paragraph form.

Read the rest here.


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