<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> > <br>> wooks wrote:<br>> <br>> >>> I have just come across a set of lecture notes for a 2001 CS<br>> >>> course in an<br>> >>>>> American University that contain a significant amount of<br>> >>>>> plagiarism from a book by Michael Jackson (Software<br>> >>>>> Requirements and Specifications). In some instances whole<br>> >>>>> lectures were plagiarised to the extent that the lecturer did<br>> >>>>> not even bother to change the examples. I wonder what he will<br>> >>>>> say when next a student presents him with an assignment that<br>> >>>>> consists of wikipedia 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<br>> > that sort of thing. Would it be plagiarism if a student did it?<br>> <br>> A lecturer, unlike a student, is typically not presenting original work <br>> and being assessed on its originality. It would be plagiarism if I took <br>> examples from a book and passed them off as my own work in a technical <br>> talk or in a textbook from which I were to get royalties.<br>> <br>> That said, it is good practice to acknowledge sources. You don't get the <br>> whole context with slides -- the lecturer may have acknowledged the <br>> source orally, as I often do. One instance where I don't do this right <br>> away is if the source also contains examples I am using as assignment <br>> questions. I have, in such circumstances, prepared a "sources" sheet <br>> available after the final exam. --PR<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> One might also want to consult the syllabus for the course as well, of course.<br>> <br>> Robby<br>><br><div><div><br><div>This was his page for the 2001 course</div><div><br><div><a href="http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/6448/s01/lectures/">http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/6448/s01/lectures/</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/6448/s01/lectures/lecture05.pdf">http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/6448/s01/lectures/lecture05.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Fast forward  to 2003 (I stumbled upon this by using a different search engine when preparing to post)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/6448/s03/lectures/lecture11.pdf">http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/6448/s03/lectures/lecture11.pdf</a></div><div><div><br></div><div>He's switched textbooks for his Requirements material and the new textbook has been very prominently acknowledged.?!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div> <br /><hr />We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/' target='_new'>Tell us now</a></body> </html>