Ten telltales that will alert you to the need to “freshen up” some of the prose, or seek out the proper citation and permissions, or at least clean up the formatting. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com.
This post about spotting plagiarism was reblogged by ACES in April 2019 following their purchase of Copyediting (which is now taken over by an imposter).
Photo by the author. Credit for “lifted” text pasted on the screen in the photo: Fare Well Farm, CSA farm share.
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