Plagiarism. So many feelings, so little words to express them. Actually, I'm very confused with plagiarism and what exactly constitutes plagiarism. Because if we use the UW academic policy as the BIBLE in regards to plagiarism, we'll find that many people these days plagiarize in the form of ghostwriting or otherwise. I WISH I could see just ONE of the essays I turned into turnitin.com and see how much of it actually came back as having been plagiarized (especially, as of yet in my academic career - no telling what the future holds - I have not plagiarized). Yes, I am currently using the same words as everyone else to express feeling, emotion, and to write on this blog; however in that case, before people started even speaking this language, we've plagiarized/not cited our "sources" of where we get these particular vowel sounds, etc.
There's no clear-cut defined border of where plagiarism begins and thinking you're original and really smart (even though someone already came up with that idea/metaphor) when you're really not! And I firmly believe that as time progresses, we will have people expressing similar views in surprisingly similar terms (ie - things that would constitute plagiarism, even though the individual came up with the ideas "originally").
I wonder how my kids will cope.
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You pose an interesting point. Especially today with the presence of the internet, information is rarely lost. It is being stored up in databases of digital warehouses around the globe. One has to wonder how many original ideas are actually being produced at the current time. It would be interesting to investigate
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