An honest and ethical author cannot, in good conscience, swipe whole sentences and paragraphs, change a few words, and call it his.
It is simply not enough for Anderson to cite the source. A cursory plunge into the book’s contents reveals that Anderson has not only cribbed material from Wikipedia and websites (sometimes without accreditation), but that he has a troubling habit of mentioning a book or an author and using this as an excuse to reproduce the content with very few changes - in some cases, nearly verbatim.Īs the examples below will demonstrate, Anderson’s failure to paraphrase properly is plagiarism, according to the Indiana University Bloomington Writing Tutorial Services’s very helpful website. Unfortunately, I have learned that the VQR‘s investigations only begin to scratch the surface. The Virginia Quarterly Review‘s Waldo Jaquith has uncovered several instances of apparent plagiarism within Chris Anderson’s forthcoming book, Free. Pamela Paul, The Gray Lady’s In-House Transphobe.An Angry Copy Editor on a Lonely Wednesday Night.
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