Definitions
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- noun the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
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Examples
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I think when people don't have a lot of time, it's really hard to be as tough on plagiarization as they'd like to be and say they are.
intertribal: a positive and generative potential in the experience of getting lost. intertribal 2010
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I'm surprised neither one has sued the other for plagiarization.
Moran for Virginia 2009
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On paper, phrase repetition is problematic, but in and of itself, it is not necessarily self-plagiarization.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Who said that? Wait, I did. Or was it Oscar Wilde? 2009
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Spread out over an entire text — or as it often appears in the case of successful writers of series, once per book — self-plagiarization may be fairly innocuous, the kind of thing that might only bug someone who read manuscripts for a living.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Who said that? Wait, I did. Or was it Oscar Wilde? 2009
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Nowhere is the practice of self-plagiarization more prevalent than in the garden-variety political speech.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Who said that? Wait, I did. Or was it Oscar Wilde? 2009
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You can't plagiarize by using something that occurred after the event constituting the alleged plagiarization.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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No matter how fiercely THE WEST WING tried to promote the notion of presidential speechwriters as ultra-creative writers, if you look at speeches given by the same politician over time, self-plagiarization is of epidemic proportions.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Who said that? Wait, I did. Or was it Oscar Wilde? 2009
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You can't plagiarize by using something that occurred after the event constituting the alleged plagiarization.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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Self-plagiarization tends to raise red flags with professional readers for other reasons, however.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Who said that? Wait, I did. Or was it Oscar Wilde? 2009
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Shouldn't the headline be: "Liberals expose Harper's plagiarization of Iraq speech"?
harper exposed 2008
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