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I'm not sure, we need to get worked up about his. An actual example of the so-called plagiarizing is given here: https://www.gawker.com/media/jumi-bellos-lithub
by isaacfrond 4y ago
I'm not sure, we need to get worked up about his. An actual example of the so-called plagiarizing is given here: https://www.gawker.com/media/jumi-bellos-lithub-essay-about-plagiarism-looks-very-plagiarized https://www.gawker.com/media/jumi-bellos-lithub-essay-about-...
In Bello’s article, for example, she wrote the following:
Plagiarism has been with us since the birth of language and art. For as long as there have been words to be read, there has been someone there copying the passages. It goes as far back as 8 AD with the poet Martial who caught another poet Fidentinus reciting his work. He called Fidentinus a plagiarus, meaning a “kidnapper.”
Compare that to this 2011 article in Plagiarism Today, titled “The World’s First ‘Plagiarism’ Case.”
Plagiarism, the act of taking another’s work and passing it off as your own, has almost certainly been with us since the dawn of artwork and written language. For as long as there has been art and artists, there have been people who have put their name to it incorrectly.
But while the act of plagiarism is as old as time, the word “plagiarism” is not. The etymology of the word plagiarism is an interesting one and its history actually dates back to the first century AD and involves a Roman poet and his literary “kidnappers” who became the subject of a literary beating.
- jjeaff 4y agoI'm confused. That is not plagiarism at all. The facts included are the same, but they are written completely differently.
- sacrosancty 4y agoYea, it's paraphrasing. But it's still a terrible way to write. Bello's version even contradicts itself giving 8 AD as the beginning of plagiarism, not the origin of the word. That's what happens when you paraphrase by reshuffling the words instead of creating new writing from the information that's in your head.
- drakonka 4y agoParaphrasing can for sure be a very common form of plagiarism[0][1] [0] https://www.scribbr.com/frequently-asked-questions/is-paraphrasing-considered-plagiarism/ https://www.scribbr.com/frequently-asked-questions/is-paraph... [1] https://law-richmond.libguides.com/c.php?g=998384&p=7227189 https://law-richmond.libguides.com/c.php?g=998384&p=7227189
- jjeaff 4y agoIt doesn't seem like paraphrasing to me. I can imagine two people writing about this same topic coming up with both of those examples independently. Bello's paragraph includes specifics that aren't even in the supposed source.
- tovej 4y agoThat's clear-cut plagiarism. The structure of the text is exactly the same and even specific phrasing is copied verbatim.
- johnday 4y agoThey're not written completely differently. They share the same structure and cover the same content using the same rhetorical devices. The fact that they use different words does not diminish the fact that this is plagiarism.
- jjeaff 4y agotwo articles written about plagiarism will invariably have similar contents. Especially information about the origin of the word. The structure only seems loosely similar to me.