Was Part of Your Proposal Plagiarized?
Author(s):
Caroline Whitbeck
You submit a proposal to a government funding agency. Your proposed project has three parts. The project receives a moderate score and is turned down for funding. Most of the reviewer's criticism of the proposal is directed towards two of the three parts.
Several years later you read a journal article that reports research, which includes as one aspect what seems to be the third part of the work you proposed to do. Using the grant award number cited in the article, you obtain the author's proposal and see that it is substantially the same as the third part of your rejected proposal.
Is there any ambiguity in the situation?
If your work was used, how serious is this misuse of the proposal?
What can/should you do now?
Cite this page:
Caroline Whitbeck
"Was Part of Your Proposal Plagiarized?"
Online Ethics Center for Engineering
9/10/2006 10:08:41 PM
National Academy of Engineering
Accessed: Friday, August 29, 2008
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