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dadioflex · 12-06-2011, 08:57 AM

Cheers HarryT!

I found this article, via wikipedia (damn, I'm claiming all my sources in this thread in case I get accused of something):

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/20...ersy-beditors/

The "identical" phrasing in a couple of instances seems tenuous but I can understand how it was enough to get the book pulped. But, in olden times, writers aped each other's style and phrasing as part and parcel of the process, an ironic wink to the cognoscenti. You wouldn't get away with any of that these days. Which is a shame.

Here's an article on the QR Markham case - very different. Great swathes of cut and paste, but the plagiarist's confession makes for interesting reading.

http://www.thefix.com/content/confes...n9278?page=all

WAIT! How can we be sure it's HIS confession?

12-06-2011, 08:57 AM	#23
dadioflex Dyslexic Count Posts: 526 Karma: 5041991 Join Date: Aug 2008 Device: Palm TX, Advent Vega, iPad, iPod Touch, Kindle	Cheers HarryT! I found this article, via wikipedia (damn, I'm claiming all my sources in this thread in case I get accused of something): http://www.thecrimson.com/article/20...ersy-beditors/ The "identical" phrasing in a couple of instances seems tenuous but I can understand how it was enough to get the book pulped. But, in olden times, writers aped each other's style and phrasing as part and parcel of the process, an ironic wink to the cognoscenti. You wouldn't get away with any of that these days. Which is a shame. Here's an article on the QR Markham case - very different. Great swathes of cut and paste, but the plagiarist's confession makes for interesting reading. http://www.thefix.com/content/confes...n9278?page=all WAIT! How can we be sure it's HIS confession?