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The Plagiarism Debate and Epistemology

PlagiarismArticleFeb2014  This article is also in Pulse on LinkedIn with 173 views as of November 2016.

Thomas Jefferson once said in a letter to Isaac McPherson on August 13, 1813: “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me…”

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Publishing

I’m in the midst of an intensive investigation of how one can publish today using social media to locate and qualify one’s readers, and save paper! Poets & Writers is a good place to start looking for a publisher: www.pw.org/about-us RefWorks may be an intriguing method for publishing to ProQuest and I plan to investigate that to publish my Trinity College master’s thesis on Orwell. I own a publishing house, Emanations Press and can help you to publish if I accept your work. For a sample of my work as an editor (including cover design) see Poems of Love and Loss, by Shalom Saada Saar, of MIT, on Amazon.

Here is the last Cambridge College book I created, in toto:
http://issuu.com/cambridgecollege/docs/alumni_book

The latest was for Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena. I also wrote the President’s message: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/52375840/this-booklet-pacific-oaks-college