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Plagiarism In My Writing

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Plagiarism is usually apparent when the writing style, tone, and quality in the paper doesn't match up to what we've come to know of your work as a student. Of course, over time we would hope you improve and perfect your writing, but each person's style is unique. A skilled educator can recognize someone's writing (both students' and colleagues in the field) rather quickly. When you try to paraphrase someone else's ideas but do it poorly, we can usually tell, and today's electronic tools make it easy to verify. But when there's an obvious mismatch between your writing and what you copied, you're doomed from the start. Just don't! I love this line from Dorothy Clark's response: "If you find something to cut & paste, I'll find it, too" (Clark,

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