On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, James Clanin wrote: > Found this on the internet. Jim > > When you take stuff from one writer it's > plagiarism; but when you take it from many > writers, it's research. > > Wilson Mizner > > > > ==== LITTLETON Mailing List ==== > LITTLETON-L@rootsweb.com Ah, but Mizner's got it wrong! When publishing research of any sort, you must ALWAYS explicitly cite your sources, giving page numbers, dates & places of publication, volume numbers, etc., and either use quotation marks or indentation when quoting passages verbatim. It becomes plagiarism when you don't do this, whether you have one source or many. Cheers, Scott C. SCOTT LITTLETON "Any sufficiently evolved Professor of Anthropology technology is indistinguishable Occidental College from magic." Los Angeles, CA 90041 --Arthur C. Clarke TEL (323) 259-2759 FAX (323) 341-4969 "I think we're property...." http://www.oxy.edu/~yokatta/home.htm --Charles Fort