No subject

"Use of quotation marks. The committee asserted that quotations around 
"mixed blood" and "full blood" Indians in Churchill's work implies the 
Allotment Act contains these terms verbatim, and because the Act does not 
expressly contain this language, this constitutes academic misconduct. 
Cheyfitz disagreed and stated quotation marks serve many purposes, and the 
use of quotations here does not necessarily imply these words were used in 
the Act."

What use of quotation marks in everyday literature does not mean you are 
quoting someone verbatim? (I hav used them to distinguish pronunciation from 
spelling in alt.usage.english, and to denote strings in computer code, and 
that is about all). When you are explaining what someone else means, then 
you enclose it in square brackets. That is what newspapers here do, anyway.

"Ghost writing. The committee found research misconduct on Churchill's part 
where he ghost wrote the Rebecca Robbins essay "from the ground up" and then 
cited that essay in his own work. Cheyfitz opined there is nothing wrong in 
this because another professional (Robins) signed off on the essay and 
applied her authority to it, so she stands behind those ideas as if she 
wrote it herself. There was no coercion or deception involved, and no basis
for research misconduct allegations. Likewise, Churchill's work on the 
Indian Arts and Crafts Act did not constitute research misconduct."

Why was her voice a good or necessary choice? She probably should hav at 
least mentioned his name, in some fashion. I asked someone to solicit my 
rent overpayment back once, and she insisted on putting it in her own words, 
which did the trick.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Plagiarism


>> In the category of academic fraud, there is fudging data, misquoting
>> sources, and poorly attributing sources. Polemics concerning what data
>> means
>> is different. So is judgement on which statistics to use. Start with the
>> mean, median, or mode problem; avoid saying "average".
>>
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> There is a trial underway:
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