In a message dated 8/9/2001 4:45:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
turk187@crosswinds.net writes:

At 06:59 PM 8/9/01, you wrote:

I'm hoping the Admins don't count this as spam, because I feel it's a 
worthwhile topic....

How should I handle plagiarism?  I've been informed by a well-meaning person 
that someone has stolen whole paragraphs out of one of my fictions.  I'm 
assuming this has happened to others before, and I wonder what people advise 
I should do.

--
Chris Angel

Joe bob briggs said not to worry about plagarism becasue it doesn't happen
until your widly known and by then it doesn't matter. One of my english
teachers said not to plagarise because it blows your credability.

[Being a comedian (I think that what he is suppose to be), Joe Bob Briggs 
isn't exactly a wealth of information, you know, and it doesn't just blow 
your credibility; you're also breaking the law, and you can be subject to 
punishment as such.  At last check, whenever a person writes something, it 
automatically becomes "his" work and is protected by copyright laws.  Anyone 
who wants to use your work will have to give credit where it's due; 
otherwise, you're plagiarizing their work. Whether the writer is famous or 
not doesn't matter.  If I do not credit my sources, be it from Ronald Regan's 
biography or some thirteen year-old's web site about her family of chintilla, 
I am plagiarizing their works.  As far as English classes are concerned (as 
well as pretty much any class you have to write reports for), you 
automatically fail the entire semester if you're caught plagiarizing even 
just a little bit, even if you're making straight As.  It's a very serious 
offense to be making.]




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