tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post3879824286384746981..comments2024-03-14T04:16:20.472-07:00Comments on In Socrates' Wake: When is copying not plagiarism?Michael Cholbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02012523929044363216noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-91144238420489774702013-05-08T21:38:11.802-07:002013-05-08T21:38:11.802-07:00Thanks for posting this.This is awesome!!Thanks for posting this.This is awesome!!cheap jerseyhttp://salekk.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-75263027106594966232013-05-08T09:01:03.177-07:002013-05-08T09:01:03.177-07:00This is very interesting! The topic of when to att...This is very interesting! The topic of when to attribute and when not to is intriguing. For example, some common thought experiments like trolley and footbridge are so common that attribution back to Foot/Thomson seem to often be left out. But for more unusual thought experiments attribution is more common.<br /><br />Another thing that everyone does is of course to revise and reuse (sometimes verbatim) your own teaching material over time and between courses with overlapping content. If one did that (without citation/attribution) in two of ones own journal articles it would counts as self-plagiarism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-27055101342157948542013-05-08T07:38:05.878-07:002013-05-08T07:38:05.878-07:00I wonder if the difference is in the reader's ...I wonder if the difference is in the reader's assumption. When I hear a politician speak, I don't assume that the words or even the thoughts are his own. At a minimum he had a speech-writer, and more than that he is supposed to represent the best of his supporters. And even as an undergraduate, I had the vague awareness that when my prof lectured on Kant's Groundwork she wasn't the only one doing it, even at my university. When she gave the "standard" interpretation, I took her to be representing not just her own thoughts but that of people in general. That vague awareness has only increased with my time in grad school.<br /><br />On the other hand, a student paper is supposed to show the individual's mastery of the content and (in the best of all possible worlds) an original contribution to the field - maybe not totally new but something that the student wasn't exposed to in class or in research, even if it's only to say "Dr. Smith says X and I find his case convincing because..." . When he doesn't properly cite his sources she's in effect presenting some idea as hers when it's really not. And that's doubly so for the journal articles we write, where that expectation is even more definite.<br /><br />You can't violate an expectation people don't have. This is a large part of why you're not expected to cite common knowledge, dates and historical facts and such, because no one thinks you came up with them yourself no matter the context. Martahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664651506798737143noreply@blogger.com