Standards for putting you name to other people's work in different forums are interestingly variable across fields. In the sciences it is normal to stick people's names on articles or other writing even when they did no research and wrote no part of the paper/book. My best friend in LS is a PhD engineer, now a patent lawyer; he published his thesis -- with his adviser's name listed first. The adviser, obviously, did not write my friend's dissertation. Not a word. He did suggest edits and research strategies, of course, as an adviser does. I have another friend in marketing (really applied social psychology) who wrote (all by herself) a series of important papers as a grad student where she's listed as author number 4 or something, after the professor, his friend, the assistant professor, etc. This is just regarded as normal in those fields. (I bet that is true at U-MO-Columbia too.) These people were puzzled that I was shocked. In my areas, philosophy, law, even political science, that sort of behavior would ruin your reputation forever and you'd be lucky if it didn't get you fired.
--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Journalism professor admits plagiarism
>
> Mon Nov 12, 3:54 PM ET
>
> A distinguished University of Missouri-Columbia
> journalism professor will no longer write a weekly
> newspaper column after admitting he plagiarized
> material from a student reporter.
>
> John Merrill, a professor emeritus at the
> university's
> School of Journalism, wrote a Sunday column for the
> Columbia Missourian, a community newspaper
> affiliated
> with the school.
>
> His Nov. 4 column about the university's women's and
> gender studies program used three quotes and other
> phrases taken directly from an Oct. 5 article in The
> Maneater, an independent student newspaper,
> according
> to the Missourian's executive editor, Tom Warhover.
>
> Warhover disclosed the plagiarism in his own column
> Sunday. A review of Merrill's earlier work by
> Missourian editors found five more columns in which
> at
> least one quote had been taken from other
> publications
> without attribution, Warhover wrote.
>
> "Missourian policy does not allow any writer to
> appropriate someone else's words as his own, even
> when
> those words are within quotation marks," he said.
>
> While Warhover said several colleagues he consulted
> described Merrill's transgression as "the ethical
> equivalent of a misdemeanor, not a felony," he added
> that the newspaper "must hold itself to a higher
> standard."
>
> In a letter to Missourian editors, Merrill
> apologized
> for what he called "unintentional plagiarism."
>
> "Careless, I'll admit, but not intentional," he
> said.
> "All these dozens and dozens of columns and some 30
> books and innumerable magazine and newspaper
> articles
> and never before have I been accused of plagiarism."
>
> Merrill is a former director of the Louisiana State
> University journalism school and also has taught at
> Northwestern State, Texas A&M, Maryland, Virginia,
> California State-Long Beach and the University of
> North Carolina.
>
> He is a past winner of the Missouri Honor Medal for
> distinguished journalism service and a member of the
> Louisiana State and Iowa journalism halls of fame.
> Merrill has lectured and taught in more than 70
> countries, according to his biography.
>
>
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