cateye wrote:Btw. , do the papers that the article is about have to be in english? I'll have to look for a translation in that case...
Hmm.. I'm not sure. On one hand it would be good to get information from various sources and backgrounds, but on the other, since most of us won't be able to read the original article then you could just be making everything up..
See if you can find an English version, if not then send Mazille and I a PM so we can discuss it. It might be alright if you could at least provide English translations for the sections you quote in your essay.
palindnilap wrote:
I think it is a good idea but I see a potential problem with that. If the chosen scientific article is interesting and not brand new, it is quite possible that the work has already been done by someone else. But relying on that vulgarization by someone else would be too easy if not plagiary. How should one proceed in such a case? Select only a recent article?
Or maybe I am seeing a problem where there isn't. I don't really know what is the probability that an article has already been explained.
Well it's true that some articles have been covered elsewhere on the net which would give some people an advantage if they were discussing a popular article, but I imagine most people who will enter will have had university level education in certain fields where the subject matter has been drilled into them so much that we could argue that they have an advantage too.
Personally, I think that any article from any time will be alright (and if they cite their source where they've obtained information from another review of the same article, then that's just more information for the audience), and of course any obvious breaches of plagiarism will result in an instant disqualification.
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