If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.
All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.