Plagiarizing Right and Wrong

Hello all,

            Plagiarizing seems to be cut and dry when you are introduced to it, don’t cut and paste things to a school paper. That is about as simple as it gets, but when you go past that it seems to get a whole lot more complicated.  When you start typing and using someone else idea you need to note that you used their idea. If you think about it, it makes sense but if you are not thinking about it, you could easily just re-write someone’s idea into your own words. Then depending on the content of your statement you could be or may not be plagiarizing. I think that there are some grey areas in the rules and regulations and then how are you supposed to regulate if two people have generally the same idea and post it online without ever meeting each other and never knowing that someone else has the same idea?