Re: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue ---> need your input NOW

Subject: Re: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue ---> need your input NOW
From: SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 09:55:04 EDT


Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>, subcontracting an editing job,
has come across two obviously plagiarized paragraphs in the author's
manuscript. Bummer! With work so hard to find, you get a job that entails an
ethical dilemma.

I would suggested writing to the editor and pointing out the problem, giving
the URLs where you noticed the original passages, and say the passages must
be rewritten. Say you're concerned that there may be other such passages, and
that if you can find them on the Web so easily, others will, too. (I mean for
this to protect you from harm--they'll realize simply dropping you won't
solve their problem.) Leave it for the other editor to deal with. Keep copies
of the manuscript passages and the Web pages they're taken from.

I don't think they'll drop your contract, but you have the ultimate trump
card: you can expose the author's work as plagiarized, which will seriously
damage the author's reputation. Once the author realizes that, things can be
worked out to your satisfaction.

I hope this helps! Let us know how you resolve the situation. It's a great
ethics case (he says from a safe remove...)!

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