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

[SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com]

Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>, subcontracting an editing job, 
has come across two obviously plagiarized paragraphs in the author's 
manuscript. Bummer! With work so hard to find, you get a job that entails an 
ethical dilemma.

I would suggested writing to the editor and pointing out the problem, giving 
the URLs where you noticed the original passages, and say the passages must 
be rewritten. Say you're concerned that there may be other such passages, and 
that if you can find them on the Web so easily, others will, too. (I mean for 
this to protect you from harm--they'll realize simply dropping you won't 
solve their problem.) Leave it for the other editor to deal with. Keep copies 
of the manuscript passages and the Web pages they're taken from.

I don't think they'll drop your contract, but you have the ultimate trump 
card: you can expose the author's work as plagiarized, which will seriously 
damage the author's reputation. Once the author realizes that, things can be 
worked out to your satisfaction.

I hope this helps! Let us know how you resolve the situation. It's a great 
ethics case (he says from a safe remove...)!

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