I’ve been reading about this thing about Ms. Vishwanathan and plagiarizing and I came to a page that sounds like a lot of fun. The website The Morning News has a contest that deals with this very thing. As they quote on their site, they wonder:
Inspired by recent events, we wondered not “why does anyone plagiarize,” but “why aren’t more people better at plagiarizing?” And so we are launching a contest to see if there is a “writer” out there who can create a coherent and original piece of fiction completely made from the works of others.
And thus, the TMN “Sloppy Seconds With Opal Mehta” Contest in which a 750 word story is “written” using not one single original phrase or word. All phrases must be cited and no single wording citing is allowed. You must grab an entire phrase. And you must crib at least five different books, although more is encouraged. It sounds insanely difficult to pull off in a short time, but it also sounds fun.
I may have to try this.
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