This article discusses the problems of plagiarism and how international views on scientific writing and plagiarism can be vastly different from norms held in the U.S. the authors content that education in the biological sciences should include training on writing skills and acculturation, not simply on preventing plagiarism.
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Heitman, Elizabeth 1; Email Address: elizabeth.heitman@vanderbilt.edu Litewka, Sergio 2; Affiliation: 1: Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37203, USA 2: University of Miami Ethics Programs, Pan American Bioethics Initiative/CITI Program, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Source Info: Jan2011, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p104; Number of Pages: 5p; Document Type: Article
