PAIN | 2008-07-12
I see that Bob has used an observation of one of our own, Dave, in his reply: "More blacks have come to America since 1965 than in the entire slave trade previously."
– Pain
"Plagiarism is stealing from ONE source. Research is stealing from several sources."
I do this so well you don't recognize that almost everything I say nowadays is directly from the comments. If I could get the process across to you, a major lesson our seminar should be teaching would be learned.
I seldom give you a stream-of-consciousness reply. I write for a bit and then do the hardest thing any writer has to do: I start over. I WORK on what I put here.
As I go along I realize, "Come on now, THIS isn't what you want to say. What is the POINT here?"
By the time I finish you don't RECOGNIZE the piece of your comment that I am EXPANDING on.
That is why the Alex Haleys and DOCTOR Martin Luther Kings (his dissertation was plagiarized) get caught plagiarizing and I say things the original writer wants to read.
It is real victory when you realize that what you originally wrote as a comment has been worked on and thought out so much you have to put it in General Comments. It becomes a whole new outlook I want to see separately.
No one teaching any version of Political Correctness or any other version of theology wants to see his seminar members doing THAT. I LIVE for it.