I have to disagree with Miguel here... agree with Barbato. I have spent the last decade researching a single paradigm and plan to do so until I retire probably. It has taken me years to phrase some of the basics in the most clear way so that others can understand what I mean. I don't want to have to think of more alternative ways to say some things. I had to really craft the text of the basic ideas carefully because I'm trying to explain some relatively abstract concepts in the most effective way possible for the listener/reader. So to have to redo this in a potentially less effective way to avoid self-plagiarism seems down right silly. They are my words that I worked on, and if they form the foundation of parts of the introduction and methods section then I can't believe it's a problem to reuse them whenever I write about the same topic. In fact, I have tried to just free write the methods section in subsequent papers and found myself repeating myself verbatim without even trying.
I an left asking myself if we haven't had the pendulum swing too far, once we have to worry about repeating parts of introductory explanations to set the stage for a new study, as being somehow "dishonest" or lacking "integrity." Just my 2 cents here. What do the others on the list think? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edu<mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu> ________________________________ From: Rick Froman [rfro...@jbu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 7:58 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Self-plagiarism http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57676/ Interesting post on The Scientist.com with quotes from TIPSter (and plagiarism expert) Miguel Roig. (I don’t mean that he is good at it, just that he knows a lot about it.) Rick Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu<mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tay...@sandiego.edu<mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0&n=T&l=tips&o=4833 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-4833-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-4833-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4837 or send a blank email to leave-4837-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
