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I work in the area of thin film materials research, and I can confirm that boiler plate text describing methods is often copy pasted by academic researchers wor
by mensetmanusman 3y ago
I work in the area of thin film materials research, and I can confirm that boiler plate text describing methods is often copy pasted by academic researchers working together, since it's nearly the least important part of a paper.
Plagiarism of the discussion section and analysis would be one thing, but a list of methods or materials is a nothing burger.
(it's an analogous to listing the constituents of your bread recipe, and it's compassion on your reader not to rewrite these constituents in a new way every time.)
- g42gregory 3y agoVery interesting. Thank you for letting the community know!
- cyanydeez 3y agoessentially java boilerplate. as a engineering consultant, the most valuable assets are the reports I can pull and reuses. while original research and academics should reference text, even M&P should reference where it came from. knowing what deviated and what adheres to any given procedures are still important. if this were some consultant report, then go nuts. also, keep in mind the context that this person, her husband and I believe Harvard are a discussion about "plagiarism"