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While Erving Goffman's sociology has enjoyed great popularity and is cited often, the career of his work has been largely confined to other scholars reaping, adapting, and utilizing his concepts. Goffman was opposed to science that just reproduces and orders concepts, and opposed to his students using his concepts as easy tools. Instead, he recommended they train their own horses: While there is much to use in Goffman's work, there is little scholarship that continues the genius of his practical approach. As valuable as Goffman's categories are, his collection practice and his analytical scheme may be even more valuable. On the one hand, they offer an intricate framework for research that is as open as it is directed; on the other hand, they allow researchers to argue freedom from the ever more imposing bad imitations of natural scientific method that threaten to overgrow the social sciences. Together, they allow Goffmanesque work without merely parroting his concepts. This article attempts to outline Goffman's eclectic way of collecting material and his technique for fashioning this material into analyses, reordering this material around different metaphors that make Goffman's contribution distinct. I call Goffman's practical research a flaneur approach, and outline it. The paper then makes an argument for its continuation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The preface to a 16th-century Hebrew book entitled Devek Tov, a supercommentary on the Pentateuch, includes an apology by the author for not citing all his sources. In his defense, he cites a passage in the Jerusalem Talmud that discusses the obliteration phenomenon. Following the trail of Jewish sayings on the importance of citation leads to a discussion of stealing ideas, i.e., plagiarism. Details of the search process, cataloging issues, incomplete indexes, and descriptions of complex locator systems found in Hebrew texts, concordances, and full-text databases are included. This detective work led to the discovery that Devek Tov was itself obliterated by incorporation into a later commentary on the Pentateuch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT. The amount of cheating and plagiarism on college campuses has become an increasingly important topic. The usual policy prescription to this type of problem is to step up monitoring efforts. However, this is difficult and costly. An alternative strategy is to substitute tougher and consistent sanctions for cheating and plagiarism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

“…︁ Scientists need to be able to trust and rely on each other as a matter of care and responsibility towards our society.My further personal plea is that we have to give our students an awareness of good scientific practice and help them to find self‐confidence …︁” Read more in the Editorial by Katharina Al‐Shamery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects on several thoughts of researchers on plagiarism. He mentions that 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary has defined plagiarism as close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. He suggests that intentional plagiarism should be considered as an offend.

The article focuses on plagiarism. The term is derived from the Latin word "plagiarus," which means one who abducts the child or slave of another. It is considered as a form of a theft, and with the evolution of new technologies, takes a form that needs vigilance and enforcement. It cites a case involving journalist Nina Totenberg on plagiarism she committed when was still starting with her career. She was said to have used quotations from members of the Congress but failed paid tribute to them before publication. Electronic plagiarism using cut and paste is considered to be prevalent, and a computer utility known as "turnitin" is launched to detect plagiarism which is widely used by universities.

The article presents the author's views on avoiding unintentional plagiarism and deplores the improper citing of other's work. The author presents guidelines for avoiding plagiarism and advises writers to give due credit to others' work. The author mentions that the American Psychological Association has put up an excellent online style guide describing a variety of citations and format for electronic citations.

The author reflects on the issue of plagiarism. He believes that plagiarism is unacceptable and immoral in the academia and journalism which sanctions public shame and dismissal for severe cases. He asserts that the practice of some authors in re-using their own published work without acknowledgement is unethical since it can nullify meta-analyses through several re-use of the same data. He recommends on using quotation marks to distinguish any important passage copied from someone else's work.