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You Don’t Say: A primer on plagiarism

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 [...]

Chris Anderson admits to “screwup” that led to unattributed passages in his latest book

The new book from Wired editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson contains multiple passages lifted from Wikipedia. The examples of plagiarism were discovered by a reviewer for the Virginia Quarterly Review and Anderson admits that he failed to properly attribute the text. Here’s how he explained himself:

As some of you may have seen, VQR rightly [...]

The must-have book for every freelance plagiarist

The folks at Writer’s Digest have a new guide to go along with their Writer’s Market series of books and services. Details are here, but the cover says it all. Get yours today!

Editors’ note

This story has already blown up, but here is the official Times Editors’ Note:
The Books of The Times review in The Arts on Feb. 26 and an article in House & Home on Thursday described the experiences of Margaret B. Jones, who said that she had been a foster child and gang member in South [...]

Um, no

This was a book developed by the Boston Globe. Background here. Thanks, MJ!

Sorry for the spat

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Harry Potter And the Mistaken Exams

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NY Post calls Coulter a plagiarist

“The Medium Is the Massage”

Pass that error along

AP celebrates “Lolita”…

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