Blog #3
When reading the McGraw-Hill Handbook’s section on plagiarism, I was reminded of one of the weirdest things I’ve learned about it. It was maybe a few years ago, but I remember my friend telling me that one of her teachers had told her class that you could plagiarize your own work. I asked her how that was possible, and she said she didn’t really know, but that if you were to reuse an old paper or something without asking the teacher you turned it in to for permission to use it, it was considered plagiarism. I believed her because I had no reason not to. Then, in my senior year of high school, my AP Literature teacher told us the same thing. It still kind of just sounds like a way to keep students from reusing previous work, but I guess I can say that I understand why turning in something you’ve already turned in before is considered plagiarism.