03 June 2015: 

Discussion:    What can we say about our first drafts?

Discussion:    Homework #6 involved a paper by Purcell on viscosity.  Since 
               this was actually simply a recorded talk, I asked you to try to 
               divide the paper up into sections with section headings.  This 
               will give us a little practice in organization.

Turn in:       Homework #7: Your first draft (PDF please).

Lecture:       Article from Scientific American: "'Your Name Here' in a
               Prestigious Science Journal"

Lecture:       Web document by Zilberberg (author): "How does it feel to have your
               scientific paper plagiarized?"  

Lecture:       Web document by Tommaso Dorigo (editor): "Fighting Plagiarism in
               Scientific Papers"

Lecture:       Clifton Phua, "Resilient Identity Crime Detection".
               Note that this paper follows an article style that is common in
               biology, medicine, sociology, psychology.  I will present the
               ideas in the paper, compare its form with those we are more familiar
               with, and then explain why this paper will be useful to us.

               For the homework assignments, you will need to retrieve files
               from my directory.  Go to
                 htpp://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/classes/pde_2015/pde_2015.html
               and select the "plagiarism" page to see what's available.

Homework #8    (not to be turned in)
               Clifton Phua provided a list of publications which he felt
               had plagiarized his work, available as "phua.pdf".  This list 
               is available as "phua_list.pdf".  Get a copy of ONE of these 
               papers (a few are on the web site, or you can hunt them down
               from Phua's information.)  Compare Phua's paper to the "suspect".
               Was there cut-and-paste copying?  Was there copying of ideas?
               (You don't have to read or understand the entire papers, but you 
               should read enought to be able to make a judgment.)

Homework #9    (to be turned in next class):
               You are the editor of a top journal, and have received three
               papers, by Albinaa, Alhazaleh, and Shabir, respectively.  
               These papers are available on the web site.  You are asked
               to report whether plagiarism has occurred.  Write a statement 
               explaining your decision.  A paragraph or two will do, perhaps
               with some snippets of evidence.

Your paper:    Since I will be reviewing your first draft and giving you
               some suggested changes to what you have written, you might want 
               to focus this week on sections you haven't actually written yet.