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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (44606)	2/23/2002 8:26:10 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You probably know the saying: when you steal from one it's plagiarism; when you steal from many, it's research.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (44606)	2/24/2002 6:13:20 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

all the student had to do was give credit for the reference... There may be misunderstanding about that, GZ. Simply citing a reference still does not allow one to copy another's work, unless one puts the copied words in quotation marks. If you want to use someone else's thoughts or findings (with a reference citation) you need to paraphrase their words in your own words. Doris Kearns Goodwin, the historical writer, is in big trouble these days for copying exact paragraphs from other authors, even though she did cite the authors as references. It's a bit of a subjective call, but whenever you copy chunks of someone else's words without using quotation marks, you have crossed the line of plagiarism, even if you cite the original author as a reference. In the case of my student, copying someone else's article word for word, beginning to end, is no-brainer plagiarism, reference citation or not.