If you steal from one author, it is plagiarism; if you steal from many, it is research.
the quip was attributed to Wilson Mizner (1876–1933), American writer and entrepreneur
An alternative phrase: To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. In recent times these words have been credited to the brilliantly out-of-kilter comedian Steven Wright
Are you familiar with the term eidetic memory or photographic memory? I think I do under certain circumstances.
Back when I was trying to publish a research paper to the IEEE conference, had a dozen references. The paper was initially turned down due to suspicious plagiarism, one paragraph included some duplicated sentences from one of the reference papers, almost like copy & paste which I didn't. But I had read it for sure. Must have taken a photograph in mind when I was reading. I was busy at that time, did not have time to fix it, my superviser knew my work, he was also the second author, so he fixed it & got accepted.
To define "steal" in either case: “You can't use 6 words of consecutive sequencing”—a common definition of plagiarism—by which neither stealing from one author nor from multiple authors is acceptable. The saying -“If you steal from one author, it is plagiarism; if you steal from many, it is research,- is not accurate.
If you steal from one author, it is plagiarism; if you steal from many, it is research.
the quip was attributed to Wilson Mizner (1876–1933), American writer and entrepreneur
An alternative phrase: To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. In recent times these words have been credited to the brilliantly out-of-kilter comedian Steven Wright
Are you familiar with the term eidetic memory or photographic memory? I think I do under certain circumstances.
Back when I was trying to publish a research paper to the IEEE conference, had a dozen references. The paper was initially turned down due to suspicious plagiarism, one paragraph included some duplicated sentences from one of the reference papers, almost like copy & paste which I didn't. But I had read it for sure. Must have taken a photograph in mind when I was reading. I was busy at that time, did not have time to fix it, my superviser knew my work, he was also the second author, so he fixed it & got accepted.
made for Pi Day 2008 by enthusiastic math students at Fort Vancouver High School (Note it is the other Vancouver in WA USA ;-)
sometimes, but not this much
To define "steal" in either case: “You can't use 6 words of consecutive sequencing”—a common definition of plagiarism—by which neither stealing from one author nor from multiple authors is acceptable. The saying -“If you steal from one author, it is plagiarism; if you steal from many, it is research,- is not accurate.