In any school you have attended, in pretty much every grade, plagiarism is something a writer should never do under any circumstances. When reading the essay “Something Borrowed,” Malcolm Gladwell gave insight into the flaws of plagiarism that writers may not have thought about before. The first being that plagiarism is never acceptable (927). The second issue with plagiarism is recognizing the differences that can or cannot “inhibit creativity” (931). Being inspired by another person work can help and guide you to build your own ideas but simply taking their work and claiming it as yours is not okay. The third and last point Gladwell makes about plagiarism is that writers evolve as time goes on and from that, they must have some point of inspiration
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We all can agree that wherever we go, we are told to not copy anyone’s work and to be original. Everyone gets ideas from other people and builds upon that which can make it hard to understand what can be plagiarism and what is not. This last issue with plagiarism that Gladwell described really puts the issues writers face into the light. People can write about anything, but what they do not realize is that somewhere it has been written before in a separate way and somewhere down the line somebody else will write about the same thing in their own unique …show more content…
What Lavery did with her play “Frozen,” was not an act of crime. She genuinely thought she was doing no wrong by taking what was in the news and creating it in a play. An important thing that came from this once Lavery knew she did plagiarize the work of another, was she admitted she was wrong and was honest on her thought process for her play. Even though the people who are involved were taken back by what happened they can see that Lavery just used this work as building blocks to her own work. Gladwell made a fair point when he said “isn’t that the way creativity is supposed to work? Old words in the service of a new idea are the problem. What inhibits creativity is new words in the service of an old idea”
We all can agree that wherever we go, we are told to not copy anyone’s work and to be original. Everyone gets ideas from other people and builds upon that which can make it hard to understand what can be plagiarism and what is not. This last issue with plagiarism that Gladwell described really puts the issues writers face into the light. People can write about anything, but what they do not realize is that somewhere it has been written before in a separate way and somewhere down the line somebody else will write about the same thing in their own unique …show more content…
What Lavery did with her play “Frozen,” was not an act of crime. She genuinely thought she was doing no wrong by taking what was in the news and creating it in a play. An important thing that came from this once Lavery knew she did plagiarize the work of another, was she admitted she was wrong and was honest on her thought process for her play. Even though the people who are involved were taken back by what happened they can see that Lavery just used this work as building blocks to her own work. Gladwell made a fair point when he said “isn’t that the way creativity is supposed to work? Old words in the service of a new idea are the problem. What inhibits creativity is new words in the service of an old idea”