{"id":7696,"date":"2016-04-25T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T18:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7696"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T18:12:57","slug":"cutting-corners-with-other-peoples-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7696","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Corners with Other People&#8217;s Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Christian publishers are taking the expensive step of using plagiarism software during their editing process to guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/2016\/04\/consider_the_source\">against intentional and unintentional plagiarism<\/a>, according to <em>World Magazine.<\/em> Emily Belz writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most publishers think authorial self-preservation, strict contracts prohibiting plagiarism, and a good team of editors will result in a plagiarism-free book. But when plagiarism is unintentional\u2014a missed citation or a miscopied note from a research assistant or just sloppiness\u2014those checks can be insufficient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I saw this kind of unintentional plagiarism or sloppiness while editing a set a workbooks a few years ago. Usually I was verifying a quotation to see if the attribution was correct, and some of them had incorrect or odd punctuation, so I tried to find an adequately sourced\u00a0quotation in order to correct what my manuscript. A couple times I found the quotation and surrounded text were all quoted from another work and improperly attributed.<\/p>\n<p>Professor\u00a0Collin Garbarino gives World this explanation for this persistent problem.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve got some pastors writing books on topics that they only superficially understand. If you haven\u2019t mastered the subject matter, you\u2019re going to have to rely on someone else for your ideas. If you\u2019re under a deadline, you might cut corners.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Christian publishers are taking the expensive step of using plagiarism software during their editing process to guard against intentional and unintentional plagiarism, according to World Magazine. Emily Belz writes: Most publishers think authorial self-preservation, strict contracts prohibiting plagiarism, and a good team of editors will result in a plagiarism-free book. But when plagiarism is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cutting Corners with Other People&#8217;s Ideas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[2221],"class_list":["post-7696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","category-writing","tag-plagiarism"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}