Something Sorrowed Malcolm Gladwell Summary

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Plagiarism and the effects on the Creative Process In “Something Borrowed,” Malcolm Gladwell discusses what he describes are the problems of plagiarism. First, that plagiarism is based on ethical rules, that decided words are the property of the writer, and it is not acceptable to copy. His second problem states that there is a disconnection on what inhibits the creative process. Somehow it is acceptable to mimic another’s work, but using their work is wrong. Finally, it is encouraged to pretend that a writer’s work is original with no outside influence. That their ideas were not the evolution and transformation of another’s. Even though plagiarism seeks to protect the intellectual property of the writer, it fails to understand that borrowing

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