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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:24:00 PDT
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- Subject: Re: cheating
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- Don--
- In your opinion, what constitutes cheating on citations?
- The story of your prof was an obvious case of cheating, but
- where exactly do you draw the line? What if you find a paper
- in Psychlit, see it cited in some other places, have a pretty
- good idea of the main ideas of the paper, but can't find it
- in the library? Are you absolutely positively not allowed
- to cite it until you find it and read it? What if you find
- it, Xerox it, skim it, figure out the main ideas, and put it
- on your desk so you can read it more thoroughly later, but then
- other things come up and you never get a chance? What if you
- do actually read it, but you only understand part of
- it, and you just cite the part you understood and ignore
- the rest? How do you know if you're cheating? Are there
- rules for this?
- Jennifer (starting to get a guilty conscience but I REALLY
- need to finish this paper and after all, I did Xerox the
- articles and read at least most of each one, and....)
-