In creating a final exam for my course, I would like to use problems from a textbook that I did not assign to the course. Do I need to reference the source on the final exam paper or is it not necessary?
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This question was raised by Dave Clarke .  When a textbook author approaches a topic in a novel way or presents a particularly interesting example, I believe that a teacher who creates lecture notes using this novel approach or interesting example would be doing the right thing to cite the originator of the approach or the example.  Similarly, whenever I copy a clever (and clearly unique) problem from a textbook and give it as a question in an exam or an assignment, I try my best to indicate (in the exam or assignment paper itself) the source of the original problem.  Does anyone know of any written document indicating whether or not it is considered unethical to copy a published problem and put it in an exam or an assignment without citing it?
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I read single variable calculus this semester, and the course is using Thomas Calculus as the textbook. But this book is just too huge, a single chapter contains 100 exercise questions! Now I'm looking for a concise and complete textbook. I'm not interested in routine, computational exercises, but rather some challenging problem sets.  I have quite a strong basic knowledge of calculus from high school, but I still have difficulties in solving a few questions from past exam papers. So I'm looking for more challenging exercises. In fact, I'm looking forward to solving Putnam level questions.  Please suggest some textbooks with these features. Thanks in advance.
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I am taking an online class that requires a textbook to be purchased. I have found the book through my first simple search using the Google search engine. The website where I found the book seems to be foreign and not related to the original authors. Is it ethical for me to use the free version that I have easily found online and not purchase the book? Edit: I think there is a valid distinction between resources found on controversial websites like SciHub and the Google search engine. Furthermore, my intentions were to purchase the book before I stumbled upon it in the first few search results.
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Jane is doing a PhD and is supervised by Professor Mary. Mary asked Jane to put together a review article for a book based on a draft chapter from Jane’s thesis with additional suggestions from Mary. The book article was submitted with the authors listed as Jane and Mary (corresponding author). I am unsure whether this has actually been published, though it was submitted well before the now-published review by Mary.  Sometime later, Mary submitted a broader review article online which used large chunks of text and figures from the book article which were directly written/generated by Jane. Whole paragraphs were copied verbatim from the first article to Mary’s article, and many more paragraphs were slightly rewritten but contained exactly the same references and phrases from the first article. Mary’s paper did not cite the book review. Mary was listed as the sole author. Jane was not informed this review was being written, and was not asked for permission to include her figures or content from the book article, which were originally written by her for her thesis.   Did Jane ‘hand over’ the rights to her written material to Mary by agreeing to submit the book article under both of their names? Should Mary have credited Jane in the article as a second author because she used exact sentences from the book article which were written by Jane? Will Jane still be able to use these (her) phrases and figures in her thesis despite not being credited on Mary’s online article?
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Can anyone tell me the difference between those two commands?  Edit: Thanks for the answers, but I didn't get the clue yet. Here's an example:  test.tex  \documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{mytestclass} ...   mytestclass.cls  \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}  \ProvidesClass{testclass}[2011/01/30 v0.1 testclass] \LoadClass{book}   or  \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}  \ProvidesClass{testclass}[2011/01/30 v0.1 testclass] \LoadClassWithOptions{book}   In both examples the options a4paper and oneside are passed to book. So, I don't see any difference in the result.
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This question is specifically about a high school course, but it should be applicable to any online course in general.  I was taking a physics course online to skip it in school, those courses are really expensive, so I took the cheapest one that my school was allowing me to take, and it was understandably low quality. This much was ok and expected.  What wasn't ok however, was that all the questions on the quizzes and exams were stolen from the internet. Every single question was taken from some school's "Ch 3 Review Sheet" or "2008 XYZ High School Physics Final Exam" etc. that was made public online.  My parents paid $500 for this course and the people didn't actually write anything themselves, and I'm pretty angry.  So my question is twofold:   Is it ok for a course to do this? If not, is there any official organization I can complain to.
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What's the best way to make corrections to a published paper? Should I amend the original paper and mention in a footnote (or similar) what was changed and why or prepare a completely separate document and put that on my website/append it to the original paper?  I'm not so much worried about how to get it to the publishers that handle the paper, but rather about how to go about it. I would especially like to hear from people who have done something like that or know someone who did.
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I'm using the exam class to prepare a test. Unfortunately, the package allows page breaks inside the solution list of a question. Considering this toy example: \question Example of question. Choose a solution: \begin{checkboxes} \choice A \choice B \choice C \CorrectChoice D \end{checkboxes}  It could be that a pagebreak happens between \choice B and \choice C. How could I prevent that? Update The solution proposed by Mico works unless we want to print the solutions to the test AND the last answer of a question is a \CorrectChoice. Here's a MWE that reproduces the problem: \documentclass[answers]{exam} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} \usepackage{etoolbox} \AtBeginEnvironment{checkboxes}{\par\medskip%      \begin{minipage}{\textwidth}} \AtEndEnvironment{checkboxes}{%      \end{minipage}}   \CorrectChoiceEmphasis{}  \begin{document}  \begin{questions}  \question Random text for question 1 \begin{checkboxes} \choice answer 1 \choice answer 2 \choice answer 3 \choice answer 4 \choice answer 5 \CorrectChoice answer 6 \end{checkboxes}  \question Random text for question 2 \choice answer 1 \choice answer 2 \choice answer 3 \choice answer 4 \choice answer 5 \CorrectChoice answer 6 \end{checkboxes}    \question Random text for question 3 \choice answer 1 \choice answer 2 \choice answer 3 \choice answer 4 \choice answer 5 \CorrectChoice answer 6 \end{checkboxes}  \question Random text for question 4 \choice answer 1 \choice answer 2 \choice answer 3 \choice answer 4 \choice answer 5 \CorrectChoice answer 6 \end{checkboxes}      \question Random text for question 5 \choice answer 1 \choice answer 2 \choice answer 3 \choice answer 4 \choice answer 5 \CorrectChoice answer 6 \end{checkboxes}      \end{questions}  \end{document}  I've solved it by following the 2nd suggestion given , that is, surround what you don't want to be broken by \parbox. (For the records, using \samepage didn't work.)
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I am writing a project report for my master degree in STEM (U.S.). I have to cite a large paragraph of others' work. This paragraph describes some basic stuff (For example, a duck has two eyes and two legs). I did not change a word in that paragraph.  I have already cited this paper at the end of my report. Is there anything else I can do to avoid plagiarism?
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We all know how important proper attribution of ideas is. At the same time, certain things have become basic enough that citing the paper where they were first discussed is overkill: to give an extreme example, if you need to do some differentiation in your math/physics paper, you don't need to go and cite Newton and Leibniz. Now, on occasion students ask me how one can determine if a piece of knowledge is common enough that they can forgo a citation. The rule of thumb I give them is:     If it is something that is explained in a standard first-year undergrad textbook, then anybody who is going to read your papers knows about it and you don't need to provide a citation.   [Here I want to emphasize that I give this to them as a rule of thumb, and I always tell them to ignore it and provide the relevant citation if they think it is necessary to do so in a specific case]  Are there better or alternative ways of drawing the line?
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When you actually read what's written in the , it strongly implies that only answers need to give attribution (see added emphasis):  Plagiarism - posting the work of others with no indication that it is not your own - is frowned on by our community, and may result in your answer being down-voted or deleted. When you find a useful resource that can help answer a question (from another site or in an answer on Stack Overflow) make sure you do all of the following  Can this be changed to be more inclusive of questions (and perhaps tag wikis)?  My best suggestion:  Plagiarism - posting the work of others with no indication that it is not your own - is frowned on by our community, and may result in your post being down-voted or deleted. When you use a resource in your post (e.g. from another site or in an answer on Stack Overflow) make sure you do all of the following
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Recently, I have worked out a solution manual for a book.   I have not found on the Internet any existing complete solution manual for this book.  Since the solution manual of mine contains every exercise given in the book, my question is: In order to publish or distribute publicly this manual, do I have to first request the consent of the publisher of the book?  [Editors note: A solution manual is an accompaniment to a textbook that provides the answers and/or techniques to solve the exercises given in said textbook. Other names for these include: answers keys and teacher's handbook.]
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This question is a  of the common question asking for calculus references. It is here to  away the repetition, and give a canonical resource for calculus references.      I'm looking for a resources to learn single-variable calculus.
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I just ran into an answer in which the author included a link to a PDF book that was licensed only to them. I'm pretty sure this is copyrighted material and the author does not want copies of the book to be freely available on the web.   What is the proper etiquette in this situation? Leave a comment? (I can't yet, I just joined.) Mark as offensive? Contact a moderator?
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I happily use the exam document class to create exams and quizzes. I often make at least part of my exams multiple choice, and I'd like to be able to      generate multiple versions of the exam by permuting the answer choices (automatically, rather than by hand as I do now), and   generate an answer key for each version when compiling the exam with answers on.      Do any of you do that or have suggestions about how I might be able to implement that?
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This is a question I have been thinking about for a while, which seems especially important as I hope to transition from undergraduate to graduate study in the next year, where studying for an exam becomes less important and studying for actual learning becomes more important.   I have always been required as part of my degree to learn proofs. Seemingly, basically, just memorising them line-by-line - there might be other methods for answering "prove [random proposition in the lecture notes]" questions, but memorisation is most effective and effectively forced by a tight time limit.   I always thought there had to be a good reason these kind of questions were put - in fact, apparently required by guidelines to be put - in the examinations. Therefore, even when teaching myself maths, I put in the effort to memorise as many proofs of theorems and propositions as I could. This especially seemed useful for maintaining understanding over long periods of time.   Now, I wonder if this was all just a bit of a waste of time. I have read many people commenting here that doing problems is far more useful - "you learn maths by doing it".   Am I wrong? Is there value in memorising proofs (after having read and understood them, not as opposed to skipping them entirely)? Or is this just a waste of time? What about when reading research papers?
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In computer systems, it's relatively common to have a large problem which is broken up into multiple sub-problems, each of which is substantial in its own right and is in the realm of different subsets of students. Suppose there's two parts, A and B. Suppose that properly presenting B requires explanations and background which A establishes (concepts, principles, etc.), and preferably would reproduce some figures for clarity. However, A has been written but not yet accepted/published. How should the authors of B proceed? Ideally the figures would be reproduced from the drafts and clearly cited as copies, but it seems weird as the original is yet unpublished. This also creates the worry that reviewers for a later submission of A would complain that these contributions are not novel as B's earlier publication have already presented them.