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NewiJapper

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For Module B in english I was struggling a little bit in how to write my essay properly and structure it with logical arguements. I recently downloaded two essays off the BOS resource section for my text and summarised the main ideas within them. Is it plagiarism if I'm using the notes I made of the essays instead of copying large chunks of texts from them?

This also goes for any other english resource out there.
 
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Not imo, I also used ideas and shit from essays off here.
 

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Yeah I don't think any teacher is going to trawl through the mountains of BoS resources to prove that you plagiarised
 

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thou shall not plagiarise.

using the ideas of others to construct your essay isn't plagiarism. so you're fine.

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But copying full sentence(s) and maybe changing only a few words with the guide of a thesaurus is plagiarism.
Our school allows 10% of an essay to be plagiarised, at most.. which i think is still pretty ridiculuous anyway. I've read a few other peoples frankenstein/br essays in my class.. most of them are basically plagiarising and changing one or two words at most every now and then; it's obvious cos they're all using the one essay.. and that's from bos; so teachers will definitely suspect something if many others have the same sort of syntax + idea/technique - i hope karma comes right round and fucks them up the arse
 

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To be honest I never bothered with the english resources from BoS. They were all pretty dodgy.
 

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thou shall not plagiarise.

using the ideas of others to construct your essay isn't plagiarism. so you're fine.

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But copying full sentence(s) and maybe changing only a few words with the guide of a thesaurus is plagiarism.
Our school allows 10% of an essay to be plagiarised, at most.. which i think is still pretty ridiculuous anyway. I've read a few other peoples frankenstein/br essays in my class.. most of them are basically plagiarising and changing one or two words at most every now and then; it's obvious cos they're all using the one essay.. and that's from bos; so teachers will definitely suspect something if many others have the same sort of syntax + idea/technique - i hope karma comes right round and fucks them up the arse

hahaha.. thats harsh mate
 
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Everyone on this site, except me, is a complete idiot. Therefore do not plagiarise. Also BOS has large amounts of trolls.













































btw. im a troll :D
 

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