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It's a bit ironic how the author talks about how to avoid plagiarism by not copying sections verbatim to later rewrite them, while at the same time the author s
by cycomanic 4y ago
It's a bit ironic how the author talks about how to avoid plagiarism by not copying sections verbatim to later rewrite them, while at the same time the author seems to have done this himself, when taking passages from his history of plagiarism article for a piece he wrote for turnitin.
Now he was copying his own words, so the ethics are somewhat murkier. I would still argue it's bad form to do this for a work for hire like the turnitin piece. Moreover it seems he also does not follow his own advice of not taking passages from other texts for later rewriting.
- cycomanic 4y agoI know it's generally frowned upon to comment on voting, but can someone explain why the downvotes? I'm really trying to understand what in the above warranted to be voted down. I've noticed that there has been much more downvoting recently. The weird thing is that often posts a few levels down, in both sides of a discussion would get downvoted even though they seemed to make perfectly fine arguments (that I might have agreed or disagreed with). It almost feels like there is some bots that randomly apply votes in discussions.
- idontknowmyacc 4y agoYeah they are bots really. Humans bots. 90% of population of whatever forum, pages, etc.How in the hell is plagiarism to "copy" ideas? Those people never have been read Sh.?