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Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing

  • 1.  Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing

    Posted 01-04-2013 13:58

    Apologies for cross-posting, but I thought many members who teach, review, or serve as editors might be interested in this material from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (the material can be downloaded as a 63 page pdf file):

    http://ori.hhs.gov/avoiding-plagiarism-self-plagiarism-and-other-questionable-writing-practices-guide-ethical-writing

    Although the material is focused at a person's own writing, a corollary of the message is that students/researchers should take care to notice such problems in the writing of others, which may also serve sources for one's own work.  This seems especially true when topics, including many in the organizational sciences, have a high potential for ideological, financial (including obtaining a promotion), and professional (obtaining a publication) vested interests. The subsections "Ethically inappropriate writing practices" and "Selective reporting of literature" in the section "The Lesser Crimes of Writing" is interesting in this regard.  I think these are especially interesting issues that are not treated in enough detail, but at least this report gets the ball rolling.  I have highlighted additional types of questionable writing/reporting practices, and provide examples of them, that ultimately lead to mischaracterization of research in the ideologically and financially charged area of employee alcohol and illicit drug use.

    As an aside, on the right side of the web page (see link above), I find reading the misconduct case studies interesting.  Although based on researchers who have NIH funding or worked on funded projects, it is quite clear that most of it occurs in the biomedical and clinical sciences.  A bit of a reprieve from all of the recent handwringing in psychology from a few high profile cases.  

    Hope you find the material useful.

    Mike Frone

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    Research Institute on Addictions
    State University of New York at Buffalo
    1021 Main Street
    Buffalo, New York 14203

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  • 2.  Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing

    Posted 01-07-2013 13:26

    Michael,

    You may find the following reference about research misconduct in the Management discipline of interest.

    Bedeian, A. G., Taylor, S. G., & Miller, A. N. (2010). Management Science on the Credibility Bubble: Cardinal Sins and Various Misdemeanors. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 9(4), 715-725.

    Alan

      Alan N. Miller, Ph.D.
      Professor of Management and Chairman
      Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology
      Lee Business School
      University of Nevada, Las Vegas
      4505 Maryland Parkway
      Box 456009
      Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-6009

      Email: alan.miller@unlv.edu
      Phone: (702) 895-1724
      Fax: (702) 895-4370


    Michael Frone ---01/04/2013 06:58:15 PM---Apologies for cross-posting, but I thought many members who teach, review,  or serve as editors migh

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    Apologies for cross-posting, but I thought many members who teach, review, or serve as editors might be interested in this material from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (the material can be downloaded as a 63 page pdf file):     

    http://ori.hhs.gov/avoiding-plagiarism-self-plagiarism-and-other-questionable-writing-practices-guide-ethical-writing 

    Although the material is focused at a person's own writing, a corollary of the message is that students/researchers should take care to notice such problems in the writing of others, which may also serve sources for one's own work.  This seems especially true when topics, including many in the organizational sciences, have a high potential for ideological, financial (including obtaining a promotion), and professional (obtaining a publication) vested interests. The subsections "Ethically inappropriate writing practices" and "Selective reporting of literature" in the section "The Lesser Crimes of Writing" is interesting in this regard.  I think these are especially interesting issues that are not treated in enough detail, but at least this report gets the ball rolling.  I have highlighted additional types of questionable writing/reporting practices, and provide examples of them, that ultimately lead to mischaracterization of research in the ideologically and financially charged area of employee alcohol and illicit drug use.

    As an aside, on the right side of the web page (see link above), I find reading the misconduct case studies interesting.  Although based on researchers who have NIH funding or worked on funded projects, it is quite clear that most of it occurs in the biomedical and clinical sciences.  A bit of a reprieve from all of the recent handwringing in psychology from a few high profile cases.       

    Hope you find the material useful.     

    Mike Frone     

    ****************************************************************
    Michael R. Frone, Ph.D.
    Senior Research Scientist
    Research Institute on Addictions
    State University of New York at Buffalo
    1021 Main Street
    Buffalo, New York 14203

    Office:    716-887-2519
    Fax:        716-887-2477
    E-mail:     frone@ria.buffalo.edu
    Internet:     http://www.ria.buffalo.edu/profiles/frone.html
    ***************************************************************