Re: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue ---> need your input NOW

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <gene -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Cc: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: May 04, 2003 02:20 AM
Subject: Re: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue ---> need your input NOW


>
> I would mark the passage with a notation pointing out that the necessary
> attribution for the reused text are "missing" without expressing any
> conclusions
> as to whether the omission is inadvertant or deliberate.  Depending on your
> ambition, you can then proceed to Google other portions of the text and
> similarly
> mark any other unattributed reuses you find.  After all, your role as an
> editor is
> to catch various sorts of "errors..."
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>

I've documented ten instances of several paragraphs lifted exactly or
minimally changed (one word differences) in a 28-page report. I promise you
that I am going to dream of sugar-plum fairies tonight and not the underside
of the universe.

I hope it's just this guy and not the whole company, because I'm just starting
out with it and would love to continue working for them. I suppose to ease my
own mind I should review the other jobs I've done for them to see if I can
determine if this is something isolated to this individual only.

___________________________________
Bonnie Granat
Granat Editorial Services
http://www.editors-writers.info




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