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<br> <br>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:18 AM, wooks . <wookiz@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> ><br>> >><br>> >> Owen Astrachan? It takes a 'professor of the teaching profession' to<br>> >> tell the world what Knuth said in 1965? I wonder what this tells us<br>> >> about wikipedia and CS education.<br>> >><br>> ><br>> > I have just come across a set of lecture notes for a 2001 CS course in an<br>> > American University that contain a significant amount of plagiarism from a<br>> > book by Michael Jackson (Software Requirements and Specifications). In some<br>> > instances whole lectures were plagiarised to the extent that the lecturer<br>> > did not even bother to change the examples. I wonder what he will say when<br>> > next a student presents him with an assignment that consists of wikipedia<br>> > entries.<br>> <br>> This does not sound like plagiarism to me.<br>> <br><br>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?<br> <br /><hr />Do you want a Hotmail account? <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/' target='_new'>Sign-up now - Free</a></body>
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