New techniques for proving plagiarism: case studies from the sacred disciplines at the Pontifical Gregorian University

"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 manuscript...

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Main Author: Dougherty, Michael V. 1973- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2024]
In: Studies in research integrity (volume 2)
Year: 2024
Series/Journal:Studies in research integrity volume 2
Further subjects:B Criticism, Textual
B Plagiarism
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Dougherty, M. V., 1973-: New techniques for proving plagiarism. - Leiden : Brill, 2024. - 9789004699854
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Summary:"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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004699848