HEDIR, for Health Educators

Oppss…My Bad

Headlines on our local newspaper reported the following:

An SIU Committee asked to draft a policy on plagiarism have been charged with plagiarizing their plagiarism report.  Apparently they copied their report from a paper created at Indiana University.  You can read the entire story by clicking the link below:

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2009/01/30/local/27946321.txt

Note, I am not on that committee.   I am the interim chair on a committee to assess the prevalence of interim positions at the university though.

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Bill Cissell

Mark,

Has anypne done a check to see how similar the IU plararism definition matches any definaitions of plagarism published prior to 2005? It seems that anyone writing a definition of plagarism would use many of the same words.

Bill

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31 January 09 at 06:38

Mark J. Kittleson

Ah…so you think the policy that we stole from IU may have been stolen from another place! So, does this count as theft? Similar to this question…if you stole bread from somebody who originally stole it, is it theft or karma?

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1 February 09 at 18:38

TDub

I can do nothing but laugh… That is hillarious! I bet students are having a ball with that information!!!!! As I once said…. "Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. " (Thomas Jefferson took it from me. )

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2 February 09 at 13:20

Bill Cissell

Technically, is plagarism executed when it is in a document that is in draft form? It seems to me that a draft is not an official publication, subject to some level f revision.

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4 February 09 at 19:54

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