Solid Research or Stolen Ideas?
What's the difference?

• What's the publicity about?

• Just what did Ambrose do?

• What's the impact on careers?

Have other people done the same?

• Joseph Biden's story, the story that won't go away

• The Episcopal clergyman accused of stealing sermons
  

Consider . . .
the "crime" of plagiarism:

• Who's the victim of the crime of stolen ideas?

• Does the community suffer?

• What restitution to the victim and the community should be made?

For Further Reading:

Chapter Five: A Plague of Originality, from The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business, and Society By Peter W. Morgan & Glenn H. Reynolds, online at The Idler: A Web Periodical 23 January 2002

Harvard's Plagiarism Policy

Case Studies: Solid research or stolen ideas?

• Did the researcher plagiarize? Why or why not?
• If this is plagiarism, how could she have avoided plagiarizing?
• What should a peer responder say to the writer?
• What should a professor say to the writer?
• If you were on the Honor Council and this case came to you, what would you say?

A little context for the cases--

• “Socrates (469-399 B.C.E.).”
• “About Vermeer Iconography” 
• Vermeer's "Allegory of Faith"

BC Resources--

Bridgewater College Honor Council Constitution

BC-OWL Guide to Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Quoting
Overview of MLA Format
Sample MLA Bibliographic Entries
Overview of APA Format
Sample APA Bibliographic Entries