"Where do architects and designers get their ideas?" The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is i...t mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an ...author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism...; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With proper attribution, to quote another's thoughts and words is appropriate; plagiarism, however, is cheating, and it may break ...copyright law as well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »