Quoted: Robert Drechsel, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted that the use of material from Klein, Postman, and Hemingway ?could be characterized as something that has come to be called ?patchwriting.? English and writing professors Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Moore Howard have defined it as ?restating a phrase, clause, or one or more sentences while staying close to the language or syntax of the source.?
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