{"id":1334,"date":"2012-02-18T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T08:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2012-02-18T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T08:30:49","slug":"plagiarism-the-10-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/02\/18\/plagiarism-the-10-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Plagiarism \u2013 the 10% solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's ...<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>plagiarism when you copy chunks of somebody else's already-published text and 'forget' to cite it accurately (or at all)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>plagiarism of a more subtle sort when you use part of something you've already published yourself elsewhere without making that clear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and then there's<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>what you do when you write something and cite your own work extensively as part of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not everyone would regard the second example as plagiarism at all, though many now seem to. \u00a0Either way, such 'self-plagiarism' has to be unwelcome practice when done extensively, though it can be difficult to avoid completely when building an argument over several papers. \u00a0Openness about what's being done is the key.<\/p>\n<p>Many would see the third as a form of self-regard, immaturity\u00a0or insecurity, though few seem to see it as plagiarism in the clear-cut way that the first is, or the less obvious way embodied by the second.<\/p>\n<p>However, all three practices seem both avoidable, and to be avoided. \u00a0I was reminded of all this as I read a UNESCO report\u00a0last week where one of the papers provided a clear example of the third issue. \u00a0Perhaps we all need to sign up to a self-denying ordinance: no more than 10% of papers cited should in something you write should ever be your own. \u00a0Just think of all the ink and paper we'd save \u2013 and the moral high ground we'd all occupy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's ... plagiarism when you copy chunks of somebody else's already-published text and 'forget' to cite it accurately (or at all) plagiarism of a more subtle sort when you use part of something you've already published yourself elsewhere without making...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}