lifting paragraphs

[kamal]

It was a perceptive and zealous graduate student--perhaps too zealous suggests Mohammed Kamal graduated from Cairo University and studing now Ph. D. in the same topic, who first discovered the plagiarized paragraphs in the published research of Dr. Ahmed Galal. The paper entitled " Electrodeposited Platinum at Conducting Polymer Electrodes.II. Application in the oxidation of methanol" authored by Ahmed Galal, Soher A. Darwish, Nada F. Atta and Shimaa M. Ali, Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Cairo, Egypt, and published in Topics Catalysis, vol.47 no.2, pp. 73 -83. The problematic issue is lifting some paragraphs from other literatures Parsons R, VanderNoot T (1988) J Electroanal Chem 257:9, and Bouzek K, Mangold KM, Jutter K (2000) Electrochim Acta 46:661, and others. In addition to the disjuncture, the lack of organization, the missing referencing and source documentation for very specific items of information, the manuscript contained the type of errors which result from a mechanical, scribal manner of copying from a text, and perhaps also resulting from the copiest making slight changes in wording which result in subtle ungrammaticalities due to the writer's not possessing a native linguistic proficiency which might permit a smoother recontextualisation and a less noticeable style of text re-combination.