July 29, 2005

Speeches Not Exempt From Plagiarism Rules

To the Editor:

The June 24 story about the dean at the University of Missouri at Kansas City who apparently plagiarized a graduation speech merits a response from faculty members for whom public communication is a serious teaching and scholarly responsibility ("Missouri Dean Appears to Have Plagiarized a Speech by Cornel West," The Chronicle). The dean's defense of his actions -- that standards for citing sources are different in speeches than in articles -- simply isn't

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