In the essay, “Something Borrowed,” Malcolm Gladwell argues that there are three problems with plagiarism. He first describes that in the past plagiarism was merely seen as bad manners, and that it was not acceptable. In recent decades, it has become almost a criminal offense, which could actually tear a person’s life to shreds. Throughout the essay, Gladwell zeroes in on the idea that we must learn the difference between “borrowing that is transformative and borrowing that is derivative.” He states that creativity is being suppressed due to the inability for another person to use an idea and use for a greater good. He expresses that plagiarism seems to be ok with direct copies of the ideas but that using something (a book, an article, etc.)
