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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Spanning the Globe to Bring You
The Constant Variety of Plagiarism


Here’s another example of what UD calls
archeoplagiarism -- plagiarism which involves
unearthing, dusting off, and reusing something
written decades before, in the hope that no one
will recognize anything that old.















'The head of University of Cincinnati's German-American studies is being investigated for plagiarism.

George Mason University's history news network reports that portions of Don Heinrich Tolzmann's book, "The German-American Experience" were taken from another book written in the 60's.

Tolzmann said he admits in his preface that he had revised and expanded on the other work, and thought that was adequate.

The investigation is expected to take four months.'