Question one describes the situation in which a student modifies his previous paper by adding some sentences and turn it in as a new assignment in a higher-level course. The safest solution is to ask for your professor’s permission before handing your paper in or write a different one in another topic. Question six focuses on a very special situation. A professor steals something in his student’s paper. And the answer to this question is definitely yes. Everything a person excogitates is related to copyright, no matter published or not.
I really learn a lot from question one. I used to think that it is absolutely ok for a student to rewrite his old paper and hand it in for a new course he takes. And I always do this. However, now I realize this is quite risky because of being accused of self-plagiarism, which I have never heard of before. Admittedly, I will never get caught cheating when conducting self-plagiarism because I steal something from myself, not from others. But I do not think this means I am free to do it. College students should form the habit of sticking to academic integrity.
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