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Robert Hauptman is professor emeritus of St. Cloud State University and editor of the Journal of Information Ethics.

Edited by Robert Hauptman
Format: softcover (6 x 9), back issue
Pages: 96
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 1994
ISSN 1061-9321
Imprint: McFarland

Editorial: Plagiarism and Scholarship     3

Publisher’s Comments     4

COLUMN

Current Issues: The First Amendment: Another Look     5

ARTICLES

I. The Accusation and Response

Reading Between the Texts: Benjamin Thomas’s Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Oates’s With Malice Toward None     8

“A Horse Chestnut Is Not a Chestnut Horse”: A Refutation of Bray, Davis, MacGregor, and Wollan     25

II. In Defense of Bray

Sharing and Stealing: Persistent Ambiguities     42

“A Sin Against Scholarship”: Some Examples of Plagiarism in Stephen B. Oates’s Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and William Faulkner     48

Plagiarism and the Art of Copying     58

A Crying Need for Discourse     65

Towards a Definition of Plagiarism: The Bray/Oates Controversy Revisited     70

III. In Defense of Oates

The Oates Case     76

Concerning the Charge of Plagiarism Against Stephen B. Oates     78

Popular Biography, Plagiarism, and Persecution     80

When the Trial Is the Punishment: The Ethics of Plagiarism Accusations     83

Reviews     89

Article Alerts     91

About the Contributors     95

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• “Points to the need for thoughtful exploration of the place of information (and of librarians) in the good (‘ethical’) life, both at the individual and the social levels”—C&RL News
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