From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 6 14: 7:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEF237B401 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:07:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA20126; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:07:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010706150541.00e06e30@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:06:56 -0600 To: "David Schwartz" , "Rahul Siddharthan" From: Brett Glass Subject: RE: Plagiarism (Was: FreeBSD spokesman) Cc: In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010706093248.04533cf0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:03 PM 7/6/2001, David Schwartz wrote: > Brett, do me a favor. Go ask ten people whose opinions you respect the >following question: > > An author wishes to show how some supporters of a particular position >defend it. So he writes: "Typical ways this position is argued for and >defended are as follows in the examples below" and he lists three brief >(paragraph length) excerpts showing ways the position is defended. He >clearly indicates that he does not agree with these excerpts and that they >are quotations from others. He does not attribute the quotations. Would you >consider this plagiarism? It absolutely is. This wouldn't even get past a competent High School English teacher! See any of the references I cited. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message