Ethical writing and scholarship is based on an implicit contract between the author and readers, whereby readers assume that wha
t they read is accurate, has been written by the author, and has: a) Not been disseminated before unless noted otherwise.
b) Undergone double-blind peer review.
c) Been based on the collective efforts of other researchers.
d) Followed traditional methods.
a) Not been disseminated before unless noted otherwise.
Explanation:
The communication process between different languages, mostly if there are grammatical differences or different alphabetical systems, can cause problems. Ethical scholarship involves a writer-reader agreement in which readers take as given that the information is precise, complete and the author hasnot previously disseminated it, whether completely or not, thus depicting the author's self-elaborated work (he/she has not committed plagiarism).
