Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age

Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus, Editors

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Published: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.

  

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Table of Contents

• Introduction: Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Age of the Internet — Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus
  • Works Cited
• Originality
  • Choosing Metaphors — Jessica Litman
  • On Ethical Issues in Publishing in the Life Sciences — Gilbert S. Omenn
  • Reviewing the Author-Function in the Age of Wikipedia — Amit Ray and Erhardt Graeff
  • Internet and Open-Access Publishing in Physics Research — Gordon Kane
  • Do Thesis Statements Short-Circuit Originality in Students’ Writing? — Anne Berggren
  • Cloud Gate: Challenging Reproducibility — Jeff Ward
• Imitation
  • Genres as Forms of In(ter)vention — Anis Bawarshi
  • When Copying Is Not Copying: Plagiarism and French Composition Scholarship — Christiane Donahue
  • The Dynamic Nature of Common Knowledge — Amy England
  • Instinctual Ballast: Imitation and Creative Writing — Christina Pugh
  • The Anthology as a Literary Creation: On Innovation and Plagiarism in Textual Collections — Christopher M. Kuipers
  • Economies of Plagiarism: The i-Map and Issues of Ownership in Information Gathering — Kim Walden and Alan Peacock
  • “Fair Use,” Copyright Law, and the Composition Teacher — Martine Courant Rife
• Plagiarism
  • History and the Disciplining of Plagiarism — Michael Grossberg
  • Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement: The Costs of Confusion — Laura J. Murray
  • Plagiarism, a Turnitin Trial, and an Experience of Cultural Disorientation — Lisa Emerson
  • Academic Plagiarism and the Limits of Theft — Stefan Senders
  • Insider Writing: Plagiarism-Proof Assignments — Lynn Z. Bloom
  • Plagiarism across Cultures: Is There a Difference? — Joel Bloch
  • Framing Plagiarism — Linda Adler-Kassner, Chris M. Anson, and Rebecca Moore Howard
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index

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