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You Don’t Say: A primer on plagiarism

July 14, 2009 – 8:01 am

By John E. McIntyre
When Waldo Jaquith of The Virginia Quarterly Review discovered and published that Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, had plagiarized passages from Wikipedia in his new book, Free, it provoked a lively, and sometimes alarming, discussion of plagiarism.
Regret the Error has summarized the affair, and there are extensive comments on the [...]

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You Don’t Say: Fixing the blame

July 2, 2009 – 8:00 am

By John E. McIntyre 
A reader of my column on how publications deal with corrections (“Daddy, where do corrections come from?") addressed a point that regularly bedevils editors: Should corrections identify who made the error?
The issue has been described at some length in the article “Who takes the fall for errors?” by Kathy English, the [...]

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You Don’t Say: Daddy, where do corrections come from?

June 18, 2009 – 8:00 am

This post marks the debut of You Don’t Say, a new column by John McIntyre for Regret the Error. John, a newspaper copy editor for 30 years, oversaw The Baltimore Sun’s copy desk from 1995 to 2009. He has taught copy editing at Loyola of Maryland since 1995, and he has conducted workshops on writing [...]

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