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Re:Cheater Cheater by kgrin on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @05:25PM (#1433930)

I wonder - is there an English class out there that focuses on "rewriting, rephrasing, riffing, and appropriation as real tools of the writer’s trade"?

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Re:Cheater Cheater by billswift on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @08:11PM (#1434277)

"If you copy from one person it's plagiarism; if you copy from many it's research."

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Re:Cheater Cheater by ars on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @10:48PM (#1434535)

Well obviously. I mean unless you literally copy every page of all those authors, you are going to be picking and choosing sections, the action of picking one sentence and not another is creative.

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