"Nice piece on plagiarism (assuming it was your own)," someone wrote to me a couple of weeks ago. "You should do a follow up on self-plagiarism, something that I have occasionally perpetrated." The ...

Is plagiarism a sin if the duplicated material is one's own? Self-plagiarism may seem a smaller infraction than stealing another author's work, but the practice is under increasing scrutiny, as the ...

Your professor releases the essay prompt, and hooray – the assigned topic is nearly identical to a paper you wrote last quarter. Clearly, you should reuse your old essay. Could it even be considered ...

In 2019, the Office of Scientific Integrity at our institution, Duke University, held a town hall meeting on plagiarism. It began with an overview that included material on self-plagiarism: the reuse ...

Most, if not all, the many articles about Jonah Lehrer this week have described what he did as self-plagiarism. Lehrer reused previously published sentences and paragraphs form his work and presented ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A nursing student at Linfield College is suing the school after she was expelled amid allegations of self-plagiarism. The term is defined by the Computer Science and ...

—Dr. Holmes tells a charming story of how, having once made a bright impromptu to a lady whose guest he was, on a lecturing tour, he, to his great consternation, caught himself repeating it to the ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The author of a recent book about how creativity works is finding out the hard way that the answer is more ...