[plt-scheme] RE: plt-scheme Digest, Vol 55, Issue 34

You are right. A fair-minded teacher would have acknowledged that a particular lecture is lifted from a single chapter in a book. Between 2001 and 2003 he seems to have figured it out. 



On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:44 AM, wooks . wrote:

> > 
> > wooks wrote:
> > 
> > >>> I have just come across a set of lecture notes for a 2001 CS
> > >>> course in an
> > >>>>> American University that contain a significant amount of
> > >>>>> plagiarism from a book by Michael Jackson (Software
> > >>>>> Requirements and Specifications). In some instances whole
> > >>>>> lectures were plagiarised to the extent that the lecturer did
> > >>>>> not even bother to change the examples. I wonder what he will
> > >>>>> say when next a student presents him with an assignment that
> > >>>>> consists of wikipedia entries.
> > >>> 
> > >>> This does not sound like plagiarism to me.
> > >>> 
> > > 
> > > I thought you were supposed to acknowledge your source when you did
> > > that sort of thing. Would it be plagiarism if a student did it?
> > 
> > A lecturer, unlike a student, is typically not presenting original work 
> > and being assessed on its originality. It would be plagiarism if I took 
> > examples from a book and passed them off as my own work in a technical 
> > talk or in a textbook from which I were to get royalties.
> > 
> > That said, it is good practice to acknowledge sources. You don't get the 
> > whole context with slides -- the lecturer may have acknowledged the 
> > source orally, as I often do. One instance where I don't do this right 
> > away is if the source also contains examples I am using as assignment 
> > questions. I have, in such circumstances, prepared a "sources" sheet 
> > available after the final exam. --PR
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > One might also want to consult the syllabus for the course as well, of course.
> > 
> > Robby
> >
> 
> This was his page for the 2001 course
> 
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/6448/s01/lectures/
> 
> No mentioned of Jacksons book in any of the links although he does mention 2 other books in I supposed what could loosely be called a reading list. Lecture 3 and 4 are entirely lifted from Jacksons book. So is a good portion (because I haven't looked exhaustively) of lecture 5. I see he is now claiming copyright on material that has been substantially lifted.
> 
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/6448/s01/lectures/lecture05.pdf
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> 
> Fast forward  to 2003 (I stumbled upon this by using a different search engine when preparing to post)
> 
> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/6448/s03/lectures/lecture11.pdf
> 
> He's switched textbooks for his Requirements material and the new textbook has been very prominently acknowledged.?!
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