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Old 01-04-2008, 02:21 AM
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Also there's a fine line here too. It's one thing to take an article and paraphrase every sentence versus taking an IDEA from an article, expanding it and developing a totally different article from someone's basic ideas. I don't think there's anything wrong with the latter.
That exactly answers my question. Even I write from my own experience. But sometimes, if I take information from third-party source, then I make sure I cite them properly. The question came to my mind when I read some articles where I thought that the some information stated in the article was taken from some other source.

These days, lots of article generation tools are available. Also, I've heard that sometimes, ghostwriters just rewrites some of their previous articles. One such case was the plagiarism case on Yahoo. I think, these facts could be the main reason why I saw such articles.

I would like to thank everybody here for taking time and answering my questions. Is it ok if I turn this thread into an article and post it on my blog?
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