Plagiarism and Stealing Content is of a Lazy Criminal Mindset
You see, I can write 2-3 very good articles from scratch in an hour or 3-4 short, interesting, okay articles in an hour. In fact in observation of the re-writing of my own personal older stuff from conversations in an email or even old research, I find to put this into articles is so much harder, than simply writing original stuff from scratch. So these folks who plagiarize or re-write articles, mixing them up, are unethical, unenlightened, untalented, cheating and although lazy, often they are wasting their time.
Now with that said, there is no reason someone who is well-versed in a subject cannot read several articles, research pieces and use observation, experience and knowledge in compilation and perhaps pick out a few points from within certain articles and reiterate them as part of a much larger piece, but if you do, you certainly ought to mention where they came from; for instance a discussion, friend, associate, article, author, researcher or quote. That is only fair.
As far as plagiarism is concerned it is alive and well, due to unethical students, researchers, government workers and pretenders, so it should not be too surprising when you discover someone doing this. I have seen articles on some online article submission sites occasionally, which are "I am sure of it" encyclopedia re-writes and when I read them it really irks me.
I have a suspicion that the questionable authors are dictating into voice-activated software from some old encyclopedia text or book that is out of print that they bought at a garage sale. And yes maybe they do change a few words, tenses or such, still we need to call it what it is. Now my big question, how can we catch these folks and make a note of it? Perhaps you might consider all this in 2007.
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Lance Winslow, a retired entrepreneur, adventurer, modern day philosopher and perpetual tourist.
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