Do Not Plagiarize Me

By Edward G. Matthews Jr.

Recently I have come across many articles with various titles and log lines that sound particularly similar to something that someone else or myself has written. Perhaps it's the old "I should have written that!" syndrome. so let's use our fancy education and write something that sounds like gibberish with a lot of big words run on phrases and sentences that clearly have no meaning or real pertinence to the discussion at hand. People, they have been read and they sound like over drafted big worded copies of someone else's original work. Get over yourselves.

You can't really stop them, but it is sad to see that someone can not think for themselves so they decide to make the list of how to do's, what to do's and not to do's and call it their own, basically copying what original work already existed. The expert of this and study of that does not do much for impression, except for the fact that you have a thesaurus sitting at your desk and slap a few words onto the computer screen to impress reader's. why not try something new. Find an interest, a hobby. Current events do not count, anyone can read the newspapers and watch CNN and blast away an article filled with big words and debate on a subject they think people will be interested in.

A good percentage of articles written are hearsay and outlandish vocabulary to pull the interest of readers. It seems that original work is very hard to come by. Take movies for example, how many times have you seen a movie recreated or duplicated in the same fashion. Maybe by a coincidence the same type of movie has been made that had a similar plot outline to another. Take for example the movie "The Last Starfighter" and the movie "Galaxy Quest" If you have seen them both you can possibly see the slight similarities in these two movies? However fifteen years apart, one holds true to in some aspects of life. The other is a slight comedy adventure. But I don't think the writers sat down and said "Hey let's write a Starfighter spoof." You could possibly call that over analysis. But either way it is similar.

Simple evaluation. Someone writes, you like it, you change the words and some of the content to satisfy your own inability to be original. If it falls in the same category as someone else's works it can usually be identified as a copy. It's not different than someone telling you they did something they didn't do. Which would still be a lie. It can be closely understood that there may actually be writer's out there with something to say, but we all sit down and read and listen to the ones who lead us on a never ending road of vocabularic articles designed to make you think of nothing but question marks.

Eliminate your list of why everyone else is stupid but you, like someone asking the reader's if they know what the stars on the American flag stand for or what the fifth amendment is. This only seeks to justify how much more of an intelligent you want to be compared to your reader's. It is very easy to read someone else's work and come up with new ideas to enhance what you think might be better to say. Be original, and write something that the rest of the reader's don't have to scan through to find what they see to be plagiarism.

Edward G. Matthews Jr.

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