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Is Clay Muganda a Plagiarist
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mukiha
#1 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:03:15 PM
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@innairobi; please help with details.
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mukhamba!
#2 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:55:23 PM
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Apparently, he takes work off the internet from bloggers and publishes it and gets paid. One blogger revealed this during a blogger's meeting.
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Jus Blazin
#3 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:51:26 PM
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Its sad. I hear at a recent Bloggers forum, bloggers were complaining of the same. In such a case, what happens? How do you discourage columnists from main stream media from plagiarising whenever they encounter writer's block or are too busy to write an article? Lawyers in the house?
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YesuWangu
#4 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:55:40 PM
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I have never read his articles. I dont like long winding stories.
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newfarer
#5 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:56:37 PM
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Plagarism is a serious crime, it brought down the career of a high flying politician in Germany .

Thank God it was not Kenya, where ministers would rather die than resign

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12566502

Ingekuwa kenya angesema 'they want to finish our people'

German minister loses doctorate after plagiarism row
punda amecheka
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Elder
#6 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:57:52 PM
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Some of the things I have read him being accused of plagiarizing are not really original. They are stuff that at least thousands of different people in a city can come up with at the same time if they give a thought to it. So it is very likely that he comes up with them independently. Or at times he gets influenced by other writers something that all writers actually do from time to time if not all the time.

And then those who accuse him also forget that copyright protects the expression of an idea not the idea itself.
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mukiha
#7 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:59:16 PM
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Jus Blazin wrote:
Its sad. I hear at a recent Bloggers forum, bloggers were complaining of the same. In such a case, what happens? How do you discourage columnists from main stream media from plagiarising whenever they encounter writer's block or are too busy to write an article? Lawyers in the house?

As a first step, the blogger can write to the editor of the publication saying that the said work was copied from their site.

Any serious editor will caution the writer and if this continues, the writer can be suspended.

Well, if I were the editor, that's what I'd do. plagiarism kills the reputation of the paper more than it does that of the writer.
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KenyanLyrics
#8 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 5:57:17 PM
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I have always wondered... is this the same muganda who crawls the halls of wazua?
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PONDI
#9 Posted : Friday, April 08, 2011 6:42:07 AM
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why cant editors emulate the institutions of higher learning who run any thesis or paper thru some programme (forget its name) which ensures that it does not contain anymore than 20% material from articles found on the net? afew weeks back read a serious 'copy paste' on saturday nation...
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Mpenzi
#10 Posted : Friday, April 08, 2011 7:15:54 AM
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PONDI wrote:
why cant editors emulate the institutions of higher learning who run any thesis or paper thru some programme (forget its name) which ensures that it does not contain anymore than 20% material from articles found on the net? afew weeks back read a serious 'copy paste' on saturday nation...


The software is called 'turnitin'
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