Citation Practices Quotes

I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name.

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.

Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.

If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.