It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And fourscore and seven years ago I didn’t even know about blogging. Today, you have nothing to fear but fear itself in reading the various viewpoints on TMV.
But one thing I’ll never do is plagiarize. The problem, though, has been a big one at the White House.
Everything is more complex than it seems. Plagiarism, too, takes many different forms.
I wrote a poem while in college and was shocked to discover that a phrase in the first line was actually something I had read when in grade school. The context and intent were diffferent, but the words were the same sequence of words..