makin' up stuff on my bibliography - plagiarism? or just sly

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right, so for this paper i have to write (for tomorrow) i NEED a certain number of sources to pass. WHICH I DON'T NEED BECAUSE I HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION I WANT

so question: is it plagiarism if i make up books and credit my own ideas to fictitious authors?

― chrisco (chrisco), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I've done it, but you better be sly. Don't use the name Nathan Allensworth, Viscount Press, London, 1955 because I already used that.

― andy, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Look up the definition of plagiarism, and you should discover that it's not plagiarism to make shit up.

After you do that, I guess you can cite the dictionary as a reference. So there you go... One less fake one you gotta come up with.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Awesome. Morality intact.

A little while I got an email from someone named Z. Jewis, and it would make my week if I referenced him.

― chrisco (chrisco), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not plagiarism, but I'd have thought it's still a failing offence.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Search for "Citing Internet Sources" with google will get you examples of how to cite Web pages, messages from e-mail discussion lists, documents available by FTP (File Transfer Protocol) etc

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

well i guess if i referenced myself using psuedonyms, it's sort of like the real thing

fuck it. it's grade 12 economics, it doesnt matter.

― chrisco (chrisco), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not plagiarism, but it would be a lot smarter to just look up some books on yr subject and list them than making them up

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

^ Exactly. Why bother to risk being snuffed out? Use a plausible source; how the fuck are they going to know if you really used it or not?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

even if you didn't crack a book open, you can use it as a source if you know about it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was always quoting sources I hadn't actually read at university. Second-hand citations rule.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

be sure to refer to economics as "the dismal science"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I do that every time economics comes up in conversation.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a roommate once who used that term ("the dismal science") to describe taking a shower.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You should totally reference this page.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Chrisco, "makin' up stuff on my bibliography - plagiarism? or just sly"; (makin' up stuff on my bibliography - plagiarism? or just sly)(Earthquake Cherry Press: 2004)

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

in the newspaper today, i discovered someone stole ideas from my book review, published 5 months ago in a magazine, and put them in his review today.

im gonna be rich now, right?

― nostormo, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 13:36 (thirteen years ago)

Is the paper owned by a massive media conglomerate?

― LaMonte, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 16:10 (thirteen years ago)

stealing ideas has always been countenanced because there are so few to go around and so many people who need them. but you have to rephrase them in your own words if you publish them. and it is considered polite to credit the source, if the source is readily identifiable.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:46 (thirteen years ago)

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