Reuse in STEM research writing
dc.contributor.author | Pemberton, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Moskovitz, Cary | |
dc.contributor.author | Hall, Susanne | |
dc.contributor.author | Anson, Chris M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-17T02:12:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-17T02:12:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-10-07 | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-10-17T02:12:54Z | |
dc.description.abstract | <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Text recycling (hereafter TR), sometimes problematically called “self-plagiarism,” involves the verbatim reuse of text from one’s own existing documents in a newly created text – such as the duplication of a paragraph or section from a published article in a new article. Although plagiarism is widely eschewed across academia and the publishing industry, the ethics of TR are not agreed upon and are currently being vigorously debated. As part of a federally funded (US) National Science Foundation grant, we have been studying TR patterns using several methodologies, including interviews with editors about TR values and practices (<jats:xref>Pemberton, Hall, Moskovitz, & Anson, 2019</jats:xref>) and digitally mediated text-analytic processes to determine the extent of TR in academic publications in the biological sciences, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences, and social, behavioral, and economic sciences (<jats:xref>Anson, Moskovitz, & Anson, 2019</jats:xref>). In this article, we first describe and illustrate TR in the context of academic writing. We then explain and document several themes that emerged from interviews with publishers of peer-reviewed academic journals. These themes demonstrate the vexed and unsettled nature of TR as a discursive phenomenon in academic writing and publishing. In doing so, we focus on the complex relationships between personal (role-based) and social (norm-based) aspects of scientific publication, complicating conventional models of the writing process that have inadequately accounted for authorial decisions about accuracy, efficiency, self-representation, adherence to existing or imagined rules and norms, perceptions of ownership and copyright, and fears of impropriety.</jats:p> | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1461-0213 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1570-5595 | |
dc.identifier.uri | ||
dc.language | en | |
dc.publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company | |
dc.relation.ispartof | AILA Review | |
dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1075/aila.00033.ans | |
dc.title | Reuse in STEM research writing | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
duke.contributor.orcid | Moskovitz, Cary|0000-0001-5324-2407 | |
pubs.begin-page | 120 | |
pubs.end-page | 135 | |
pubs.organisational-group | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences | |
pubs.organisational-group | Thompson Writing Program | |
pubs.organisational-group | Duke | |
pubs.publication-status | Published | |
pubs.volume | 33 |
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