While not traditionally what you’ld call Information Visualization, the above graphic is a powerful visualization of William Meehan’s dissertation, with portions highlighted that are copied verbatim from Carl Boening’s dissertation. The two universities involved (Jacksonville State University and the University of Alabama) claim it’s not plagiarism.
Some enterprising readers (faculty? student-journalists?) have gone through the dissertations of Carl Boening and William Meehan, highlighting every passage in Meehan’s that can be found, word for word, in Boening’s. Neither the University of Alabama (which granted Boening and Meehan their doctorates) nor Jacksonville State University, where Meehan is president, has chosen to take up the obvious questions about plagiarism that Meehan’s dissertation presents. As another recent story suggests, plagiarism seems to be governed by a sliding scale, with consequences lessening as the wrongdoer’s status rises.
@Spencer
I recommend you go to the original source to get permission.
http://sites.google.com/site/whatplagiarismlookslike/
Hi,
This image is quite interesting. May we use this image as part of an academic integrity tutorial we are revising: http://www.isu.edu/library/research/ait/title.html. It is for educational purposes.
Regards,
Spencer
The corruption of university administrative bodies can easily overcome any evidence. See: “University of Toronto Fraud” at http://ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud/
@wolftroutcobra ummm.. There’s already an apostrophe in there.. you’ld = you would …
Proofread.
“While not traditionally what -you’ld- call Information Visualization,….”