From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-12-27, Alan Brown  wrote:   
   > Marco van de Voort  wrote in   
   > news:slrndr06qh.2tuk.marcov@snail.stack.nl:   
   >   
   >> On 2005-12-26, Alan Brown  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> However, it should be obvious to most people that plagiarism. legal   
   >>> or not, is not ethical and is certainly not acceptable behaviour in   
   >>> all academic environments that I know of.   At the University I   
   >>> worked for, plagiarism would get the student dismissed instantly.   
   >>   
   >> I know what plagiarism is, etc etc. I just wanted to stress that the   
   >> word "theft" doesn't apply. I prefer to keep using the descriptions in   
   >> lawbooks (and probably in your universities statutes), which is   
   >> "PLAGIARISM", and not theft or Intellectual Dishonesty. Even   
   >> "copy-cat" is IMHO more correct than thief.   
   >   
   > The Dictionary reference I quoted determines that the word "theft" does   
   > apply in the etymological definition of "plagiarism".   
   >   
   > In Roget's Thesaurus the word "plagiarism" is listed under the section   
   > (788) headed "theft".   
      
   The problem with the short definitions in dictionaries is that they work   
   based on analogy to keep them short, not on correct/formal definition.   
      
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