New Techniques for Proving Plagiarism

New Techniques for Proving Plagiarism
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : 9789004699854
ISBN-13 : 9004699856
Rating : 4/5 (856 Downloads)

Book Synopsis New Techniques for Proving Plagiarism by : M. V. Dougherty

Download or read book New Techniques for Proving Plagiarism written by M. V. Dougherty and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that the principles of textual criticism—borrowed from the fields of classics and medieval studies—have a valuable application for plagiarism investigations. Plagiarists share key features with medieval scribes who worked in scriptoriums and produced copies of manuscripts. Both kinds of copyists—scribes and plagiarists—engage in similar processes, and they commit distinctive copying errors. When committed by plagiarists, these copying errors have probative value for making determinations that a text is copied, and hence, unoriginal. To show the efficacy of the newly proposed techniques for proving plagiarism, case studies are drawn from philosophy, theology, and canon law.


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