The image below juxtaposes two pages from two different books. The image on the right is page 139 of Inherit the Earth by Gary North (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1987), and the image on the left is page 23 of Future Men by Douglas Wilson (Moscow, ID: Canon Press, 2001). According A Manual for Writers by Kate L. Turabian, “Failure to give credit is plagiarism.” A Manual for Writers is the standard used by New Saint Andrews College to define plagiarism.
You can’t buy this kind of comedy gold.
I wonder if he’ll take responsibility or if he’ll blame-shift.
Strike that. I don’t wonder.
Dear Doug Wilson, (I’m assuming that you or another Kirker will be reading this),
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that plagiarism is going on in here!”1
Changing a single word, i.e. “plagiarism” instead of “gambling,” does not avoid the charge of plagiarism. Please see “Harvard Guide to Using Sources: What Constitutes Plagiarism?”
Below is an example of a citation. Mighty handsome, isn’t it? It helps folks to differentiate between a “wordsmith” and a wordthief.”
As ever,
Rose
1 Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Burbank, California: Warner Brothers Studio, 1942.