Passage Passage 1
In a recent survey concering plagiarism among scholars, Two University of Alabama economists asked
1.200 of their colleagues if they believed their work
had ever been stolen. A starting 40 percent answered
yes While not a random sample, the responses still represent hundreds of cases of alleged plagiarism.
Very few of them will ever be dragged into the sunlight. That's because academia often discourages victims
from seeking justice, and when they do, tends to ignore their complaints. "It's like cockroaches," says the
author of a recent book about academic fraud. "For every one you see on the floor there are a hundred
behind the stove
Adapted from Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smalwood. "Four Academic Pagarists You've Never Heard Ot How Many More Are Out There 62004 by
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Passage 2
Words belong to the person who wrote them. There are few simpler ethical notions than this particularly as
society directs more and more energy toward the creation of intellectual property. In the past 30 years,
copyright laws have been strengthened fighting piracy has become an obsession with Hollywood, and, in
the worlds of academia and publishing, plagiarism has gone from being bad literary manners to something
close to a felony. When a noted historian was recently found to have lifted passages from other historians,
she was asked to resign from the board of the Pulitzer Prize committee. And why not? If she had robbed a
bank she would have been fired the next day
Adapted from Malcolm Gladwel "Something Borrowed. Should a Charge of Pagar Ruin Your Life 2004 by Conde Nast
Question
The author of Passage 2 would likely respond to the actions attributed to "academia" in the fifth sentence of
Passage 1 ('academia complaints") by asserting that
O these actions are consistent with the approach common in publishing
O academic plagiarism has usually been misrepresented in surveys
universities increasingly treat plagiarism as a serious offense
colleges should provide amnesty to researchers accused of plagiarism
E
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