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| Pastor Nathan Bickel |
Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Cyber-Aardvark - St. Boniface":
Dr. Jackson,
I'm relatively new to Ichabod, [not even a year] - and from time to time I've noticed you hitting upon (pointing out) Paul T. McCain, for being a plagiarist. I never paid that much attention to your continued particular literary spotlight, until now. But, with this posting of yours, I took the time to superficially examine it and check out the linked sources you provide.
I noticed that both articles about St. Boniface were posted June 5th. At least that is my understanding. Not knowing what I'm not privy to, I could conclude that either web author plagiarize the other. At any rate, since both websites are apparently separate and not authored by the same person, I conclude that it is some shameful plagiarizing going on. [Downright sinful, at that!]
What is it with some people that they cannot ascribe material they use, to its original source? Is it pride or laziness, or both? Certainly, it cannot be ignorance if a person is somewhat, academically educated. That's part and parcel of (the misrepresentation) which makes it so dishonest and therefore, sinful.
Nathan M. Bickel - pastor emeritus
www.thechrisitanmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Cyber-Aardvark - St. Boniface":
Pr. Nathan,
Certainly, it cannot be ignorance if a person is somewhat, academically educated
You are absolutely right but that is the question. You would think they are for at least McCain has an MDiv. It shows by the behaviour it means nothing.
LPC
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GJ - One problem with plagiarism is finding the original source. Sometimes there are earlier publications, so someone can find the first one and trace it from there.
Paul McCain has copied an entire post without any credit or link to the earlier source. He also has vague references to the original (no link) at the bottom of "his" post. Another one of his tricks is to write "source" at the end and embed the actual link, a website for recruiting Roman Catholics. In other examples it is impossible to tell who wrote the original post.
A vague reference at the bottom of a post, a common feature of Cyberbrethren, is not a remedy against the charge of academic honesty. In fact, it is the most common form of student plagiarism. More than one has shouted at me, "I put a footnote at the bottom!"
Changing the order of the original does not fool me. I have seen that with students. It only makes it more obvious that the perp knew what he was doing.
This seems to be McCain's original work:
If you think about (sic - missing word), in one way, it is kind of odd to have a Sunday that is called “Trinity Sunday,” I mean, after all, it’s not like the other Sundays in the Church Year are not about the Holy Trinity, in one way, or the other.
If McCain always writes at the middle school level, it is no wonder that he copies promiscuously from his betters.
McCain's violations of the law are especially egregious, given his position as Number Two at Concordia Publishing House. He even warned one pastor on LaughQuest about using CPH materials. The rules apply to everyone else - a typical attitude of UOJ Antinomians.
I have told people that McCain is all they need to know about Matt Harrison, who flatters McCain at every opportunity.
There is nothing wrong with copying a source, identifying it clearly at the beginning of the post (or the end of a block quotation), giving credit where it is due. Newspapers online clearly covet this, since copying text will produce a complete citation with it, in many cases. I like that. Normally, I use "Blog This!" from Google, which states the original title/link and embeds it one or more times in addition to the first one.
Another method is to change the color of the text, to emphasize the quotation being distinct from the rest of the post.
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