PLAGIARIZED

Plagiarized



Plagiarized

Introduction

With many new writers currently facing the ugly realities of plagiarism for the first time, a misconception is mounting that plagiarism is a relatively new phenomenon; one only perpetrated by the untalented, inept, or simply unscrupulous.

But those of us who have been writing for a number of years-longer than there has been online publishing-we are quite aware that this side-effect of legitimate writing has a history almost as long as prose writing itself (there are countless fairy tales and children's stories, for example, that would not be known today if not for plagiarism), and is not one that can realistically ...