7 Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism Tip # 3 – Resolve to give credit generously 避免抄襲的七大方法之三：詳實引注，解決剽竊疑慮
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A true scholar is not a thief. Yet stealing another researcher’s ideas or method of expressing them sometimes happens inadvertently in the course of research. How to avoid accidentally passing off someone else’s work as your own is the subject of this series, “7 Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism.” Each of the tips will be presented on the TPS Fan page before being compiled with the others as a series.
Tip # 3 – Resolve to give credit generously
方法三：詳實引注，解決剽竊疑慮
If ever there is a time to go the extra mile—and life is rife with such opportunities—giving full credit in a paper to the work of another scholar is one such time. Penury is a foolish habit in general, but being ungenerous in the academic realm can be particularly dangerous. Egos that drive academicians to discover new truths are easily bruised when the work is not duly credited. In the worst case, such insults can come back to haunt the slighter in legal and professional ways.
生命中許多時候，應該多花點時間，多付出一些努力－在論文中充分標註引用的他人成果，就是這樣的時機。吝嗇往往不是好習慣，而在學術領域，這種吝於付出可能特別危險。學者發掘真理，若心血沒有獲得適當尊重，很容易損及他們的自尊情感，尤有甚者，這份怠慢可能回過頭來，讓人在法律或學術生涯上付出代價。
So in laying out the framework of a paper and preparing to dive into research, let the good scholar thus resolve: Where the work of a previous researcher is a springboard to new understanding, the debt owed the earlier discoverer will be openly and frankly paid. Honesty is the best policy. Transparent appreciation for the work of predecessors not only strengthens a paper by firmly grounding it in a discipline, it sets the stage for new revelation and argument.
因此，構思論文架構，準備潛心研究前，負責任的學者就該下定決心：如果借助了前人的研究成果，因此獲得新的見解，就有責任公開、坦承地將功勞歸於之前的研究者。誠實方為上策，坦率地感謝前人的成果不僅有助奠立論文的學術根基，也提供了新發現與話題討論的舞台。
Where it can get tricky is in the slog of research. As the weeks of reading and notation creep by and the number of sources mounts, careless attribution can unwittingly become part of the process. Who said that… this guy or that one? Oh-oh, is that my jotted observation or the stated view of another? Such mistakes are understandable, but unless they are cleared up prior to submission or publication, they can explode into mighty embarrassments. Don’t get sloppy.
研究千頭萬緒時，引述最常出錯。不知不覺讀了幾個禮拜的書、做了幾個禮拜的筆記後，資料逐漸累積，一不小心就可能犯錯。這句話是甲說的，還是乙說的？糟糕，這句話是從我的觀察筆記得來的，還是其他人闡釋的觀點？這樣的錯誤可以理解，但在論文送出發表，務必排除這些疏漏，否則結果可能很難堪。切記不要馬虎行事。
A true scholar is not a thief. Yet stealing another researcher’s ideas or method of expressing them sometimes happens inadvertently in the course of research. How to avoid accidentally passing off someone else’s work as your own is the subject of this series, “7 Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism.” Each of the tips will be presented on the TPS Fan page before being compiled with the others as a series.
Tip # 3 – Resolve to give credit generously
方法三：詳實引注，解決剽竊疑慮
If ever there is a time to go the extra mile—and life is rife with such opportunities—giving full credit in a paper to the work of another scholar is one such time. Penury is a foolish habit in general, but being ungenerous in the academic realm can be particularly dangerous. Egos that drive academicians to discover new truths are easily bruised when the work is not duly credited. In the worst case, such insults can come back to haunt the slighter in legal and professional ways.
生命中許多時候，應該多花點時間，多付出一些努力－在論文中充分標註引用的他人成果，就是這樣的時機。吝嗇往往不是好習慣，而在學術領域，這種吝於付出可能特別危險。學者發掘真理，若心血沒有獲得適當尊重，很容易損及他們的自尊情感，尤有甚者，這份怠慢可能回過頭來，讓人在法律或學術生涯上付出代價。
So in laying out the framework of a paper and preparing to dive into research, let the good scholar thus resolve: Where the work of a previous researcher is a springboard to new understanding, the debt owed the earlier discoverer will be openly and frankly paid. Honesty is the best policy. Transparent appreciation for the work of predecessors not only strengthens a paper by firmly grounding it in a discipline, it sets the stage for new revelation and argument.
因此，構思論文架構，準備潛心研究前，負責任的學者就該下定決心：如果借助了前人的研究成果，因此獲得新的見解，就有責任公開、坦承地將功勞歸於之前的研究者。誠實方為上策，坦率地感謝前人的成果不僅有助奠立論文的學術根基，也提供了新發現與話題討論的舞台。
Where it can get tricky is in the slog of research. As the weeks of reading and notation creep by and the number of sources mounts, careless attribution can unwittingly become part of the process. Who said that… this guy or that one? Oh-oh, is that my jotted observation or the stated view of another? Such mistakes are understandable, but unless they are cleared up prior to submission or publication, they can explode into mighty embarrassments. Don’t get sloppy.
研究千頭萬緒時，引述最常出錯。不知不覺讀了幾個禮拜的書、做了幾個禮拜的筆記後，資料逐漸累積，一不小心就可能犯錯。這句話是甲說的，還是乙說的？糟糕，這句話是從我的觀察筆記得來的，還是其他人闡釋的觀點？這樣的錯誤可以理解，但在論文送出發表，務必排除這些疏漏，否則結果可能很難堪。切記不要馬虎行事。
Posted at 2012-02-24 16:17:19
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