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Subject:Re: plagiarism in technical communication? From:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 2 Nov 2023 08:49:02 -0400
The only circumstance I can imagine where accusations of plagiarism
*within the same company* might be used would be in an attempt to get
rid of a writer who could not be fired without some sort of concrete
evidence of malfeasance. I've never seen it happen.
A possible sin that looks like plagiarism would be the failure to
research when updating a document, instead presenting an earlier but
out-of-date version as a new finished product. Again, I've never seen it
happen.
As I may have related in this forum long ago, a new tech writer was
brought into our group and given the desk of someone who had just been
relieved of duty. The former writer's nameplate was still there. "You
had HER working here? WHAT DID SHE TELL YOU SHE WROTE? When we were both
at (other company) she was always passing off my work as hers."
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