After a thorough review of the incident, Canon Press has released a report on The Justice Primer. If you are interested, you can read that report here.
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Theology That Bites Back
Theology That Bites Back
After a thorough review of the incident, Canon Press has released a report on The Justice Primer. If you are interested, you can read that report here.
So how many pages was the book? How many pages, or words missed citation? While zero tolerance is the goal for missed citations, does 1%? Or what ever the figure is, Justly qualify as “significant”, as described by Hobbs and Miller?
It’s almost like people need a primer on justice. As in” do unto others as you would have them do unto you!”
Citation?????
I remarked back when the brouhaha first erupted that the whole situation was extremely ironic…
So…will a revised edition be out shortly with the few minor corrections fixed??
Tempest meet Teapot
This lines up very nicely with Malcolm Gladwell’s observations in his chapter “Something Borrowed,” from his book “What the Dog Saw.” Purely by “coincidence,” I wound up reading this weeks after the Justice Primer story broke. I took the book out of the library because I’m a Gladwell fan and I had no idea he even touched on this topic.
The original “Something Borrowed” article is here.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/22/something-borrowed
Doug, in your original statement on your blog, you listed all the positions Randy was losing because of this. Given the actual extent of the plagiarism – and given that to the layman it’s debatable whether some of the instances were plagiarism at all – why are the consequences to Randy so dire? Why isn’t “oops, I screwed up, I’ll be more careful next time” sufficient? This seems like an instance where plagiarism-detection software has given us the ability to be far more scrupulous (or legalistic) than is necessary. At some point downstream, don’t things become commonplaces that no longer… Read more »
Mr. Dickinson, Here are some questions for you to consider, since I guess nobody is going to answer you. :) Are you suggesting that NSA modify its standards on academic honesty? If not, why not? Shouldn’t the same standards apply equally to NSA board members and NSA students? What would the consequences be for a student at NSA who plagiarized in the same way Pastor Booth did, “intentional” or not? Dire (your word)? Would the student even be allowed to make the argument that he didn’t mean to plagiarize? If so, what is the point of having the policy against… Read more »
God? God’s law is a transcript of His character. (Citation?) Hyper Critics? Straining for flaws is a transcript of their character. (Anon.) Luke 6:41-43 41 Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s[a] eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? 42 Or how can you say to your neighbor,[b] ‘Friend,[c] let me take out the speck in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your… Read more »
It seems to me we need a new definition of plagiarism in the advent of plagiarism software. Of course, proper citation must be practiced, but “God’s law is a transcript of His character” could occur to any serious student of Scripture who had never read it from Ellen G. White nor heard it from Greg Bahnsen (as is the case with me, for example, and I have often made this statement or one like it).