Is Your Writing Content Original and Unique?
Don’t Let Plagiarism Derail Your Writing Career
Is your writing content unique in tone and style? Have you ever completed research for a book or copywriting project and thought that your own copy might be too similar to the information you researched?
To succeed as a blogger, content writer, or author, you need to accurately assess your work to ensure that you haven’t fallen prey to plagiarism.
Your research process must include steps that prevent you from crossing the line and copying someone else’s work — even if only by accident or even if only copying their idea. Both are considered plagiarism. Don’t let plagiarism derail your writing career and ruin your dreams of success.
Defining Plagiarism
When you appropriate another person’s “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions” as your own without proper citations, you have plagiarized. Pay close attention to these words: language, thoughts, ideas, and expressions.
Plagiarism is serious. Don’t think that you can use someone’s ideas as your own. That’s wrong. Consider how upset and violated you would feel if another writer stole content from your blog, website, book, or other platform — and called it their own work.
