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while it is clear that Bello borrowed the text from the blog, she did paraphrase it to a good degree. I struggle to call it plagiarism, but, yes, I would have d
by dariosalvi78 4y ago
while it is clear that Bello borrowed the text from the blog, she did paraphrase it to a good degree. I struggle to call it plagiarism, but, yes, I would have definitely cited the original source.
The thing with plagiarism is that it's either (almost) verbatim or it's not plagiarism, because, otherwise, everything is plagiarism. That's how culture and ideas work.
- mkl 4y agoWhat makes it plagiarism is passing it off as your own, i.e. not citing your sources.
- idontknowmyacc 4y agoMy country's main writer took entirely the V act of Hamlet into their second chapter of his main novel. He's a Nobel, though. That's how culture runs, that how it works. Nobody can master words as Sh did. And he was so good at writing plays if and only if someone else wrote that play before, at least as a tale.
- idontknowmyacc 4y agoElliot, on the other hand, likes to say where a line in his poem comes from. WTF man, I'll never read you if I didn't know.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoThat is incorrect in an academic context. Obviously different contexts have different expectations of citation and attribution, but plagarism is not just about infringing someone's copyright by stealing their work verbatim. It's about misrepresenting someone else's ideas/research/analysis as your own. I can restate Plato's model of concrete things being mere shadows of abstract ideals however I damn well please, but if I don't mention that I got that idea from Plato, it's still plagarism.