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Offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual property.
This book offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual property. The authors show that plagiarism is not nearly as simple and clear-cut a phenomenon as we may think. Contributors offer many definitions and facets of plagiarism and intellectual property, demonstrating that if defining a supposedly "simple" concept is difficult, then applying multiple definitions is even harder, creating practical problems in many realms. This volume exposes the range and breadth of these overlapping and complex issues, reflecting a postmodern sensibility of fragmentation, and clarifies some of the confusion, not by reducing plagiarism to ever simpler definitions and providing new or better rules to apply, but by complicating the issue, examining what plagiarism and intellectual property are (and are not) in our more or less postmodern world.
This book offers and explains various definitions of plagiarism. Issues covered include copyright law and plagiarism; imitation and originality in classical rhetoric; sociohistorical perspectives; and late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century notions of authorship in student publications and textbooks. The authors also offer different applications of these plagiarism definitions in specific arenas including university writing centers, administrative settings, peer-writing groups, textbook publishing, and the wider marketplace.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Definitions 1. Legal and Historical Definitions Copy Wrong: Plagiarism, Process, Property, and the Law
Laurie Stearns
Originality, Authenticity, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Augustine's Chinese Cousins
C. Jan Swearingen
Intellectual Property, Authority, and Social Formation: Sociohistorical Perspectives on the Author Function
James Thomas Zebroski
Competing Notions of Authorship: A Historical Look at Students and Textbooks on Plagiarism and Cheating
Sue Carter Simmons
2. Academic Definitions
Whose Words There Are I Think I Know: Plagiarism, the Postmodern, and Faculty Attitudes
Alice M. Roy
"But I Wasn't Cheating": Plagiarism and Cross-Cultural Mythology
Lise Buranen
A Distant Mirror or Through the Looking Glass? Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in Japanese Education
L. M. Dryden
The New Abolitionism Comes to Plagiarism
Rebecca Moore Howard
3. Literary and Theoretical Definitions
The Illusion of Modernist Allusion and the Politics of Postmodern Plagiarism
Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Poaching and Plagiarizing: Property, Plagiarism, and Feminist Futures
Deborah Halbert
From Kant to Foucault: What Remains of the Author in Postmodernism
Gilbert Larochelle
Imperial Plagiarism
Marilyn Randall
Literary Borrowing and Historical Compilation in Medieval China
Robert André LaFleur
Part II: Applications 4. In the Writing Center
Writing Centers and Plagiarism
Irene L. Clark
Writing Centers and Intellectual Property: Are Faculty Members and Students Differently Entitled?
Carol Peterson Haviland and Joan Mullin
Plagiarism, Rhetorical Theory, and the Writing Center: New Approaches, New Locations
Linda Shamoon and Deborah H. Burns
5. In Academic Administration
Confusion and Conflict about Plagiarism in Law Schools and Law Practice
Terri LeClercq
Student Plagiarism as an Institutional and Social Issue
Edward M. White
When Collaboration Becomes Plagiarism: The Administrative Perspective
Henry L. Wilson
6. In Instruction and Research
Plagiarism as Metaphor
David Leight
The Ethics of Appropriation in Peer Writing Groups
Candace Spigelman
The Role of Scholarly Citations in Disciplinary Economies
Shirley K. Rose
7. In the Marketplace
Brand Name Use in Creative Writing: Genericide or Language Right?
Shawn M. Clankie
GenX Occupies the Cultural Commons: Ethical Practices and Perceptions of Fair Use
Joan Livingston-Webber
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
