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Is it Plagiarism? Probably not, but…

Sometimes it’s difficult to decide if someone sharing your words is a compliment or a theft.

Pla·gia·rism: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

Earlier this year, I wrote a piece called Things I Wish I’d Known Before Submitting My Writing.

Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Submitting My Writing

My whole intent for writing this piece was to help writers avoid making the same mistakes I did. I was quite thrilled that so many people found it useful and left wonderful comments. The link to my article was shared many times, much to my delight.

However, I was surprised one day, as I was checking Twitter and came across a tweet mentioning the title of my story. I followed it to its source, on the Chicago Writer’s Association Blog.

They changed the formatting, removed many of my words, and all the links I had provided to the resources I listed.