Re: Models of recommendation letters

[Stephen Newmann <newmann@msmary.edu>]

I'm not at all sure I'm on safe ground here but I've been given to
understand that oriental societies (at least some) have a very different
notion of the need to credit folks for their ideas or their words.  In
some cultures that sort of acknowledgement would be a terrible
embarrassment.  I think that one way of looking at the 'documentation'
issue we've seen raised here would be to find ways to enforce the rules.
But another might be to re-think the notion of giving/taking credit.
				--stephen
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On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, MULLIN ANNE wrote:

> I rather expected  Dr. Glover's  law firm would be after me  (when 
> they're not working overtime on Car Talk litigation) -- but I'll 
> simply say in defense of  copying his model letter of reference that 
> "it was on the Net."  Which gets back to the really important issue 
> Nell has raised.  The problem of undocumented sources is going to get 
> hugely more difficult because of the downloading syndrome -- I just 
> encountered a similar argument ("I didn't think I NEEDED to use 
> quotation marks or citations if I was just using their ideas") when I 
> pointed out that, in fact, the writer had copied word for word from 
> her sources.    
>