[T]o plagiarize is to give the impression that you wrote or thought something that you in fact borrowed from someone, and to do so is a violation of professional ethics.... Forms of plagiarism include the failure to give appropriate acknowledgment when repeating another's wording or particularly apt phrase, paraphrasing another's argument, and presenting another's line of thinking
I'm a plagiarist. I plagiarised arguments I read on metafandom to make my vid Us. I plagiarise every time I draw a picture of a building I didn't build myself (which is every time!) or use a structure I never invented. I drew a picture an hour ago using the proportions of the body that my dad taught me, that he learnt, that in the end Da Vinci laid out. I'm not fucking citing Da Vinci, or my dad, for that matter. I quote lines from TV shows when I talk to my friends. A lot of the time I do it and I don't even know, because I never saw that particular show, or that book that they all had when they were kids and so I just know the references. I am swimming in a sea of other people's ideas. It's called culture! I can't cite the entire world. It's absurd.
I'm fine with it, actually. I don't care how hard someone worked on their art; they can shit it directly to the page for all I care, if it's good art. ;)
In these debates in fandom, plagiarism is always talked about in terms of universities and student papers, but this isn't school. I am not your student, the reader is not my lecturer, and their appreciation is not my passing (or failing) grade.
I'm happy to forgo praise to make my fanac, which is plagiarism, drawn as it is, largely uncited, from my interactions with the world, with bits and pieces that I find and cobble together. I mean...that's fine! Withhold your praise! Keep it! *grins*
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[T]o plagiarize is to give the impression that you wrote or thought something that you in fact borrowed from someone, and to do so is a violation of professional ethics.... Forms of plagiarism include the failure to give appropriate acknowledgment when repeating another's wording or particularly apt phrase, paraphrasing another's argument, and presenting another's line of thinking
I'm a plagiarist. I plagiarised arguments I read on
I'm fine with it, actually. I don't care how hard someone worked on their art; they can shit it directly to the page for all I care, if it's good art. ;)
In these debates in fandom, plagiarism is always talked about in terms of universities and student papers, but this isn't school. I am not your student, the reader is not my lecturer, and their appreciation is not my passing (or failing) grade.
I'm happy to forgo praise to make my fanac, which is plagiarism, drawn as it is, largely uncited, from my interactions with the world, with bits and pieces that I find and cobble together. I mean...that's fine! Withhold your praise! Keep it! *grins*