Jane Goodall: Plagiarize

                 Jane Goodall a lot more than one sentence, she plagiarized lines and lines of information and wording from various websites that she continuously failed to cite, which is not okay. Goodall’s book, Seeds of Hope, about her love and knowledge of plants. Or what we thought was her knowledge.  In the article Goodall writes, “I have spent a lifetime loving plants, even though I have never studied them as a scientist.” Using other sources information is alright to use, but you must cite it.

                Although Steven Levingston writes that some authors accidentally plagiarize from co-authors, time, and the web, it still does not give writers an excuse. Even if Jane Goodall’s plagiarizing situation was an accident she and her co-authors still need to fix their mistake and give citations where needed. I think she should give citations for all the webs’ information, paraphrase the information, or just take it out altogether and do her own research in her own words to fix this problem. I think the situation became more serious when reporters wrote that she plagiarized more than a couple of lines. Plagiarizing a lot of the information in a book without citing is very serious.