The fact that Jane Goodall plagiarized in her latest book seems serious to me. For one, at our school we have serious consequences if we plagiarize. Secondly, she just threw passages in there without paraphrasing a little bit. It seems as if Jane Goodall took the matter lightly because all she said was sorry. I thought if things like that happened you could get sued or something, but from the article, it seems that no one has taken any action to tell Goodall that she may have to pay a fee or she can't sell her book. I am very surprised that this happened, especially since it was sometimes paragraphs that were not given credit to the actual author.
I think they should correct it by not selling the books that have already been copied even though that may waste money. They could also have like an extra page of the book where it says all the sources, or she could have a page or something official where she puts all the information that she took on it. Another thing I questioned was why didn't the publisher of the book read it before they made copies of the book. Aren't they suppose to check for mistakes, errors, or anything that is wrong with a book? They need to introduce the authors of the things they stole, paraphrase, quote, and anything else. How could they be so careless? Even I know to do such things. It may be difficult for them to look through the entire book, word by word, but since it was published for everyone to read with her name on it, it was pretty serious.
I totally agree with you porscha. I did not know that famous authors like this would plagiarize.
ReplyDeleteThis is a parallel of what I wrote, so I agree. Good post.
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