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Sunday, November 13, 2005

Small addendum to
recent post [scroll down]
about plagiarism

In an article in this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer, about the rather weird ongoing “conceptual plagiarism” controversy in the University of Pennsylvania sociology department, we get another example of the tendency of plagiarists to plagiarize on a regular basis (a tendency I discuss - scroll down - in the post titled “A Few More Words About Plagiarism”):

Maria Kefalas, one of the authors being accused of conceptual plagiarism, “faced questions about attribution in her previous book - questions that were resolved when she posted a list of corrections…”

It's not at all clear, however, given the conceptual fuzziness of "conceptual plagiarism," that Kefalas and her co-author have done anything wrong.
Posted at: 11/13/2005 04:22:00 AM