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On Jan 6, 12:18pm, Richard Coe wrote: > Subject: 'plagiarism" > Reading James Brown, Kenna Mannos, and Pat Sadowy's piece in Inkshed > 13.2 makes me want to say/write this. The confusion students report > (p. 11) about what to reference has only a rhetorical solution. I'm really pleased to have a response. I haven't talked to my co-conspirators about this, but I certainly agree with Richard and I'm quite sure Kenna and Pat do too. Other versions of the piece probably made our sense that we need to help students learn to adjust to different discourse communities clearer. As Richard points out, so called "common knowledge" is a particularly good example of this because it does (or should) raise the question of "common to whom?" Of course the answer varies and the concept of discourse community provides a useful way of marking this variation. -- James Brown Assistant Secretary of the University York University Secretariat S883 Ross 736-5012 [log in to unmask]