Sunday, October 14, 2007

Copywrong

I will be utterly amazed if anyone will be able to discover my source for the plagiarism project. I, knowing full well where I received the information, was nearly unable to relocate the original manuscript to get the URL for future reference.
Putting my sly genius aside, I was surprised at how difficult it was to plagiarize a paper without it being traceable. In many ways, it would have been easier to create an original story than to go through the hassle of recreating that of someone else. I think if the ideas would flow more easily plagiarism would be a lot less common as it is the ideas that are the most difficult part of the writing to originate.
During my writing process (or copying process) I felt quite guilty for my actions. The word-for-word copying allowed me to read the original document quite thoroughly. I was able, then, to see the talent possessed by the author; and it allowed me to get a taste of the sacrifice that must be exerted in order to produce a quality work.
I do not think I possess the character to allow myself to plagiarize in such a way without deeply altering my conscience.

And if you are reading this in a drastic attempt to extract clues as to my paper's sources I have a piece of advice for you. Put the paper away, you will not find the original source.

1 comment:

Selena said...

You're right, your source of information is virtually impossible to find. Not that I spent THAT much time looking for it, I eventually got frustrated and gave up. I couldn't find anything online, and didn't even want to imagine going to one of the libraries and coming up empty-handed, so good job!