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A
Plagiarism Story
Definition of Plagiarism
Why do
Students Plagiarize?
Getting Caught
How To
Avoid Plagiarism
A Good Rule to Know
To Credit or
Not to Credit
Plagiarism Exercise 1
Plagiarism Exercise 2
Plagiarism Exercise
3
Don't Plagiarize:
Give Credit
Summary
Sources
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A Plagiarism Story
In August 2004, Stephen Dunphy, the business
columnist and associate editor of the
Seattle Times, resigned under pressure after working at the newspaper for 37 years.
The reason: plagiarism.
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Here is
what happened:
in July 2004 a reader
of the Seattle Times emailed the newspaper
pointing out that a story by Dunphy was a lot like another story he had read earlier in a business magazine. The newspaper editors did some checking and found the reader was right. They also checked other articles written by Dunphy. According to the editors:
We found 13 stories with significant portions that we felt were blatant plagiarism. In them, Dunphy lifted language and used
another writer's style, analysis, explanation and
even personal observations without any attribution.
Seattle Times
Sunday, September 12, 2004
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Here is an example of Dunphy
plagiarizing a story for
an article about the Chinese city of Shanghai. Notice how
identical the stories are.
Dunphy's story appearing in the Seattle
Times July 21, 2002:
" ... When the Red Army marched into the city in May 1949, it
acquired
a major international port of 6 million people divided into
pockets of great
wealth and desperate poverty.
"There was the Shanghai of Chinese capitalists and Western
financiers, a place
known for adventure, entrepreneurial flair and
civility. This was the 'Paris of the
East,' Asia's most prosperous
city a world of stately mansions, grand boulevards,
chic cafes run
by White Russian émigrés, posh country clubs and dog races.
"And there was also the Shanghai of the wretched naked urchins,
diseased beggars
and half-starving laborers who lived in shanties
and scraped for a daily bowl of rice."
This story, by Michael Weisskopf , appeared in
The Washington Post, Jan. 6, 1985 (seven years earlier):
" ... When the Red Army marched in in May 1949, it acquired a
major international
port of 6 million people divided into pockets of
great wealth and poverty. There was
the Shanghai of Chinese
capitalists and western financiers, a place known for adventure,
entrepreneurial flair and civility. This was the 'Paris of the
East,' Asia's most prosperous
city — a world of stately mansions,
grand boulevards, chic cafes run by White Russian
émigrés,
night-clubs with names like Casanova, dog races and posh country
clubs.
"Then there was the Shanghai of the wretched — naked peasant
children, diseased
beggars and half-starving coolies who lived in
shanties and scraped for a daily bowl of rice."
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