Two Florida Atlantic University researchers who published a paper on detecting plagiarism stand accused on committing the very wrong they set out to prevent.
“A plagiarized article about plagiarism!” is how Michael Heberling, a professor from Michigan, reacted when he saw the FAU team's article.
Retired FAU business Professor William Ryan and FAU graduate student assistant Lindsey Hamlin published their piece on plagiarism in last month's online edition of Syllabus magazine.
Via Joanne Jacobs [1], “Plagiarism article sparks copycatting duel [2]”
I'm experiencing lots of schadenfreude today [3]. In this case, it's my old alma mater, FAU (Florida Atlantic Univeristy) [4], and in other news, ex-FAU (Florida Atlantic University) administrator Carla Coleman [5] [DELETED-President Anthony Catanese-DELETED] is arrested.
FAU is such a fun school …
My friend Ken Maier [6] just wrote in to clarify that it wasn't Anthony Catanese that was arrested, but Carla Coleman.
I'm going to have to work on my reading comprehension skills now …
[1] http://www.joannejacobs.com/archives/2003_06_22_archive.htm#105673816249594282
[5] http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/0630corvette.html