EAKIN MARK E wrote: > > I found two articles by the same author but published six years apart. The > articles used different data sets and drew slightly different conclusions. > However in the introductory and literature review sections, there were > entire paragraphs that were the same in both articles. The latest article > did not cite the first article and the copied paragraphs were not in > quotes. Is this common practice and/or an ethical problem? Can you > plagarize yourself? >
Try a google on "self plagiarism" and you'll find a fair body of opinion -- including an ACM article. More concretely but maybe less relevantly, most universities and schools have a rule that students cannot gain credit for similar pieces of work; i.e. I've seen it specified that repeating part of an essay is plagiarism. Best regards, Jon C. -- Jonathan G Campbell BT48 7PG [EMAIL PROTECTED] 028 7126 6125 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jg.campbell/ . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
