Yeah I know... I'm trying to calm down...
It doesn't help that in the Whinehouse thread, there are some
fellas who actually claim that what the guy did was right and was
not tantamount to plagiarism.
Pfft. When you grab a passage from elsewhere and claim it as your
own work, that's plagiarism, pure and simple. The right way to do
it is to write everything in your own words as much as you can and
cite your sources of information.
I don't believe I'm being unreasonable here. I'm not making the guy
rephrase technical terms. I can still accept that some coincidences
are inevitable, especially when it comes to simpler
sentences.
But lifting entire sections of text and passing it off as your own
- that's plagiarism. It doesn't matter whether you cite it or not.
The only time when you can lift sections of passages would be
quotations - and what he did weren't quotations at all.
