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JTW915434 Supplemental Material - Supplemental material for Text Recycling in STEM Research: An Exploratory Investigation of Expert and Novice Beliefs and Attitudes
No full textSupplemental material, JTW915434 Supplemental Material for Text Recycling in STEM Research: An Exploratory Investigation of Expert and Novice Beliefs and Attitudes by Cary Moskovitz and Susanne Hall in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication</p
'To Have her Children With Her': Elizabeth Cary and Familial Influence
No full textThis collection is the first book-length study of the writings and influence ofElizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a woman to be printed in ..
At limits of life: multidisciplinary insights reveal environmental constraints on biotic diversity in continental Antarctica
No full textData source: Supporting information, http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044578#s5Multitrophic communities that maintain the functionality of the extreme Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, while the simplest of any natural community, are still challenging our knowledge about the limits to life on earth. In this study, we describe and interpret the linkage between the diversity of different trophic level communities to the geological morphology and soil geochemistry in the remote Transantarctic Mountains (Darwin Mountains, 80uS). We examined the distribution and diversity of biota (bacteria, cyanobacteria, lichens, algae, invertebrates) with respect to elevation, age of glacial drift sheets, and soil physicochemistry. Results showed an abiotic spatial gradient with respect to the diversity of the organisms across different trophic levels. More complex communities, in terms of trophic level diversity, were related to the weakly developed younger drifts (Hatherton and Britannia) with higher soil C/N ratio and lower total soluble salts content (thus lower conductivity). Our results indicate that an increase of ion concentration from younger to older drift regions drives a succession of complex to more simple communities, in terms of number of trophic levels and diversity within each group of organisms analysed. This study revealed that integrating diversity across multi-trophic levels of biotic communities with abiotic spatial heterogeneity and geological history is fundamental to understand environmental constraints influencing biological distribution in Antarctic soil ecosystems.Catarina Magalhães, Mark I. Stevens, S. Craig Cary, Becky A. Ball, Bryan C. Storey, Diana H. Wall, Roman Tűrk and Ulrike Ruprech
Common Misconceptions about Text Recycling in Scientific Writing
No full textAmong the fundamental principles of scientific publishing, originality is one of the most important. Every manuscript is expected to offer a unique contribution, something clearly different from what has already been published. We typically think about originality in terms of a paper\u27s content: What does this manuscript add to the knowledge of the field? An article may offer some fundamentally new idea or evidence that substantially alters the field, but more often, advances are incremental.
An example of such incremental advances is a series of articles investigating a new vaccine. Many papers are published before a promising vaccine gets to the stage of clinical trials. Then there will be many more studies: safety studies; pilot studies; studies on different populations, such as adults and children; studies about the efficacy of varying dosages; and so on. If done well, each new paper will offer important insights and inform future research. But from one study to the next, some things will stay the same: the essential problem being studied, the relevant prior research, the biochemistry of the vaccine, the method of vaccine delivery, and so on.
This overlap in content raises a question about writing that has troubled both researchers and editors: When is it acceptable for researchers to repeat material from their own prior papers? Prior to the digitization of written communication, the duplication of material between scientific articles must often have gone unnoticed. It certainly wasn\u27t a topic of discussion in the realm of research ethics. But with the growth of digital communication came online plagiarism detection tools, and these identify overlapping material regardless of whether the prior work was written by the same authors or someone else. Concern over what came to be called self-plagiarism was amplified by the companies selling these tools. They could market the software to publishers to flag papers with overlapping text and then sell the same tool to universities for researchers to use to identify (and therefore change) overlapping material before submitting the manuscript so it wouldn\u27t get flagged (Moskovitz and Colton 2021)
Reuse in STEM research writing
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Text recycling (hereafter TR), sometimes problematically called “self-plagiarism,” involves the verbatim reuse of text from one’s own existing documents in a newly created text – such as the duplication of a paragraph or section from a published article in a new article. Although plagiarism is widely eschewed across academia and the publishing industry, the ethics of TR are not agreed upon and are currently being vigorously debated. As part of a federally funded (US) National Science Foundation grant, we have been studying TR patterns using several methodologies, including interviews with editors about TR values and practices (Pemberton, Hall, Moskovitz, & Anson, 2019) and digitally mediated text-analytic processes to determine the extent of TR in academic publications in the biological sciences, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences, and social, behavioral, and economic sciences (Anson, Moskovitz, & Anson, 2019). In this article, we first describe and illustrate TR in the context of academic writing. We then explain and document several themes that emerged from interviews with publishers of peer-reviewed academic journals. These themes demonstrate the vexed and unsettled nature of TR as a discursive phenomenon in academic writing and publishing. In doing so, we focus on the complex relationships between personal (role-based) and social (norm-based) aspects of scientific publication, complicating conventional models of the writing process that have inadequately accounted for authorial decisions about accuracy, efficiency, self-representation, adherence to existing or imagined rules and norms, perceptions of ownership and copyright, and fears of impropriety.</jats:p
Mrs. Cary L. Mitchell
No full textMrs. Cary L. Mitchell, new secretary of the Fort Worth Art Center School, looks at a photograph of author Somerset Maugham by Ida Kar. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Morning January 8, 1967.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/3568/thumbnail.jp
Alice and Phoebe Cary portraits
No full textThe Cary sisters became famous poets during the middle of the 19th century. Alice is shown on the left, while Phoebe is on the right. In 1838, Alice had one of her poems published in a Cincinnati newspaper. Eleven years later, Alice and Phoebe jointly authored "Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary." The work received positive reviews, and the two women moved to New York City. Edgar Allen Poe, a leading American author, poet and literary critic, was an admirer of both women's work. William Holmes McGuffey included several of the women's poems in his "McGuffey Reader." These portraits are taken from "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio," 1907
Text Recycling in Scientific Writing
No full textText recycling, often called "self-plagiarism", is the practice of reusing textual material from one's prior documents in a new work. The practice presents a complex set of ethical and practical challenges to the scientific community, many of which have not been addressed in prior discourse on the subject. This essay identifies and discusses these factors in a systematic fashion, concluding with a new definition of text recycling that takes these factors into account. Topics include terminology, what is not text recycling, factors affecting judgements about the appropriateness of text recycling, and visual materials
Cary, Elizabeth, Lady Falkland
No full textAcknowledged in her own time as a dramatist, historian, translator, and patroness, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland (1585/1586–1639), is recognized today as the first Renaissance Englishwoman to author an original drama. The Tragedy of Mariam (c.1603–c.1606, printed 1613) has become one of the most discussed examples of women’s writing in the pre-1660 period but less attention has been paid to Cary’s other works. This chapter gives equal prominence to all of Cary’s literary activities and begins the task of resituating The Tragedy of Mariam not only within a life trajectory but within a lifetime of writerly activity
Cary, Elizabeth, Lady Falkland
No full textAcknowledged in her own time as a dramatist, historian, translator, and patroness, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland (1585/1586–1639), is recognized today as the first Renaissance Englishwoman to author an original drama. The Tragedy of Mariam (c.1603–c.1606, printed 1613) has become one of the most discussed examples of women’s writing in the pre-1660 period but less attention has been paid to Cary’s other works. This chapter gives equal prominence to all of Cary’s literary activities and begins the task of resituating The Tragedy of Mariam not only within a life trajectory but within a lifetime of writerly activity
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