5.0841 Rs: PC; Plagiarism (3/61)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 19 Apr 1992 13:23:07 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0841. Sunday, 19 Apr 1992.
(1) Date: 15 April 92, 22:25:11 EDT (21 lines)
From: Harry Whitaker <R12040@UQAM.BITNET>
Subject: political correctness strikes again
(2) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 19:11:57 EDT (30 lines)
From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel)
Subject: Re: 5.0828 Final Words on Plagiarism
(3) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 08:40:17 PLT (10 lines)
From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1>
Subject: Outrageous Plagiarism
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Date: 15 April 92, 22:25:11 EDT
From: Harry Whitaker <R12040@UQAM.BITNET>
Subject: political correctness strikes again
Source: The Gazette, Montreal, Saturday April 11, 1992, p. B6
Article: "Not Correct: Padlocking the Minds of Writers"
Author: Neil Bissoondath, a Montreal novelist and short story
writer who wrote a Special to the Gazette, from which the follwoing
direct quote is taken:
"Two months ago Quebec artist Lyne Robichaud had her
painting "Woman with Bananas" banned from exhibition at Concordia
University Women's Centre: the depiction of a black woman by a white
painter was deemed unacceptable. Calls were raised for artists to
restrict their imaginative explorations to their own culture and gender.
Not long after, Canada Council director Joyce Zemans waded into the
issue of "cultural appropriation" by suggesting that before exploring
lives or cultures different from their own, artists should seek
consultation with, even permission from, such groups. Implicit in her
stand was that failure to do so would have an unhappy effect on
Council grants to artists."
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 19:11:57 EDT
From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel)
Subject: Re: 5.0828 Final Words on Plagiarism (3/165)
Who said it was a final word on plagiarism? We just started
discussing the matter a few messages ago.
Self plagiarism is a fairly frequent form of plagiarism among
essayists and academics... and it is also a theft since the
author leads the book-buyer to think that there is a new book of
his on the market and that the reader should have it and read it.
The author is misleading his/her readers: to me, it is just the
same think as to sell a second-hand car while claiming it's a
brand-new one.
Self plagiarism seems to me to be one of the symptoms of the
running dry of the writer's inspiration or intellectual evolution.
It might also be motivated by the desire to publish at all costs.
And one of the consequences of it is that the publishing company
which markets the last book of a self-plagiarising author might
be suited by the publisher(s) of the author's preceding book(s).
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 08:40:17 PLT
From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1>
Subject: Outrageous Plagiarism
I thought I'd lighten up the debate about plagiarism with my favorite
story. I once had a student who was doing very poorly, then turned
in a professional piece of prose which was obviously plagiarized.
When I confronted him with it, he denied he was guilty, arguing, "My
girlfriend wrote it for me; but honest, if I'd known she was going to
plagiarize, I would never have had her do it."