alt Hacker NewsI am flabbergasted. How self-absorbed does one have to be to be offended by someone re-using sections of a paper one has done earlier in a later paper?
No, seriously. If I write 5.000 words on a topic and then re-use 500 words I myself have written earlier without attribution because they are appropriate to the current article, how do you make that «bad manners».
I meant what I said about people who can’t see this without help earlier.
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jubilanti • yesterday at 10:06 PM
How about you take that stick out of your ass and stop assuming that norms which have existed for generations are, what, just some kind of mass mental illness?
I mean, i dont know how things work in academia, but if i was reading a fiction novel, and it turns out half of it was copied from some other novel i already read, i would feel a bit cheated. So i could imagine the same thing applying to academic works.