“My English teacher happens to be the chair of our English department, so he’s super strict about plagiarism. In his opinion, searching up anything online is off limits, especially if you don’t cite it. But I didn’t listen–I searched up interviews with the authors of books I was writing essays on for the whole entire year. I ended up never getting caught, but every time he handed an essay back, my heart pounded the whole way through. Later he said I was a ‘wonderful’ English student, and I felt pretty terrible, but not terrible enough to confess.”
-Unapologetic Poet
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