Columbia Journalism Review: The Counter-Plagiarism Handbook
March 4th, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Journalism, Legal
The excellent Craig Silverman has written a short guide to avoiding and detecting plagiarism and fabrication for the Columbia Journalism Review. To his knowledge no-one has yet written a “definitive guide,” he says.
Among the tips:
Use a different font and text color for your research files. This will help you instantly recognize other people’s words when you paste them into your story. (Many people have suggested this over the years. It works.)
The Counter-Plagiarism Handbook at this link…
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