Negotiating and Regulating Plagiarism in Everyday Blogging Practices

Negotiating and Regulating Plagiarism in Everyday Blogging Practices Clancy Ratliff East Carolina University [email_address]

In an email to me…

You hv posted a very kewl blog. I have stolen a few things from It just to start with my own blog.

Plagiarism

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placeholding

OMG ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!1!!111!!

References

http://www.cirp.org

http://www.noharmm.org

htttp://www.norm.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision

"The joy of Uncircumcising" by Dr Jim Bigelow

Nice plagiarism.

by brettd on Fri Aug 05, 2005 at 06:42:55 PM EST

Nice job cutting + pasting blocks of text from the Wikipedia article, and others.

Next time, provide proper citations- ie indent, quote marks, italics- SOMETHING to indicate A SECTION OF YOUR TEXT IS NOT YOUR OWN WORK. It is not acceptable (even with a bibliography) to simply copy the text word for word. There are clear citation standards, and I suggest you pick up virtually any style guide or middle school english textbook.

Take it easy

by eightyford on Fri Aug 05, 2005 at 07:09:18 PM EST

I agree mostly, but this isn't exactly a formal publication. Wikipedia is meant to be 'plagiarised' too. And why do you have to be so angry? Circumcised lately?

Oh Please!

by stzu on Sat Aug 06, 2005 at 07:14:41 AM EST

Yes there is some cutting and pasting...primarily in the history section. It makes up about 15% of the article.

All in all a pretty unfair accusation.

love,

Simon

Humanity Critic: http://nappydiatribe.blogspot.com

Let me explain this for a moment. For the last year and a half, something that many of you will experience possibly, I have had a handful of people plagiarize my writings on their blog and attempt to pass them off as their own. I caught one culprit by accident by simply browsing other blogs, I caught 5 other's by using the site "Copyscape", and random emailers alerting me of said offense are responsible for 12 others that I'm aware of.

From Copyscape’s “About” page:

Copyscape is dedicated to defending your rights online, helping you fight against online plagiarism and content theft. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you.

Defend your site with a plagiarism warning banner to warn potential plagiarists against stealing your content. Choose a banner from the gallery below and click to add it to your site. Please only use these banners if your content is your own.

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