Tips on Blogging and Plagiarism Below
When it comes to plagiarism, I believe that this is the best of times and the worst of times.
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When it comes to plagiarism, I believe that this is the best of times and the worst of times.
Electronic
text, e-books, and the web make it both the season of Light, and the season of
Darkness, the spring of hope, and, as one might put it, the winter of despair.
It is, in a sense, the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness; the epoch of
belief and incredulity.
In the
midst of this, I ask that you adhere to your own thoughts, ideas and
expressions and keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming
it on you.
Trust
yourself when all men doubt your originality, but you must make allowance for
their doubting too: Even when you are lied about on Twitter, don’t deal in
lies. In all things, to thine own self be true.
More than
this, we must battle the plariaism trend with all our power and might. We
cannot not flag or fail. We must go on to the end. We must fight with growing
confidence and growing strength whatever the cost may be to our reputations and
Follower counts. We must never surrender to the plagiarists.
To this, I
personally commit my blood, toil, tears and sweat.
But
if you really insist, here are my
Top
5 Tips for Plagiarizing when Blogging
·
Pretend
you are reviewing your victim’s Blog or editorializing – call it a "Commentary on Blogging" or
something like that.
·
Reference
your work with your victim’s references.
·
Pretend
it was a Parody. Change a few words, add
college humour phrases, and make fun of the person you are stealing from in
a separate article.
·
Cover
Your Tracks: Steal from someone who has stolen the material from someone else
who stole the material from someone else.
·
Think
of something original – Google it and you will find someone who has said it
before and better than you ever could.
