scissor-and-paste job

scissor-and-paste job
   a book or article not based on original research
   The author figuratively clips and inserts material from published sources:
    [It] is a competent scissor-and-paste job. It gathers together the essential information from earlier biographies. [Sunday Telegraph, 3 June 2001)

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