Proposed Texas Constitutional Amendments, Amy Peck, PeckBlog
Here are the proposed state constitutional amendments coming up in the November election. As a state employee, I do not think it would be ethical to post my opinions about the proposed constitutional amendments. So instead I have posted an analysis and arguments for and against each proposed amendment. Post any questions you have in the comments, and I will do my best to get you an answer.
In and of itself, that's not too bad. The problem comes with the "analysis". If you go and read the PeckBlog "analysis" you might notice that it looks very familiar to the analysis found here. Again, this is not, in and of itself a problem.
What IS a problem is that it appears that Amy Peck has 100% either straight copied, or summarized the Texas Legislative Council's work without attribution, essentially presenting it as her own.
However you cut it, that's plagiarism.
Now, it's probable that this was unintentional, that Peck just used the TLC's document and is ignorant of copyright laws, and the pratfalls of not offering proper attribution. At worst, she intentionally ripped all of the content and presented it as her own. I don't think there's any way you can look at the two documents and make any kind of argument that the information on Peck's blog is her own.
Let's hope that we're dealing with the former and Peck corrects her error and apologizes.
1 comment:
Cory,
If you notice throughout my blog I always cite my sources. There are links in almost every post. To be perfectly honest, I just posted this one too quickly and just forgot to add a note about the source. It has been corrected on my blog. It is just really meant to be a shorter, condensed version of the TLC's analysis so that people don't have to read through the entire thing if they are in a hurry. I do apologize for the oversight on my part, and the source is now up. Mea culpa.
Thanks,
Amy Peck
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