Many people find articles and information on the Internet and do a little re-writing. They are not outright plagiarists and yet one has to question the ethical nature of this writing tactic. I suppose one could mix and match and collect a little information from the Internet and write an article on nearly any subject. Yet if one does this can they really hold themselves out to be an authority on the subject?
Unless the article writer has "Savant" tendencies then simply reading a few articles and making your own is more "compiling" that any sort of authority and expert. A studier of a subject is not an expert and a quickie surfing session to write an article is pushing the envelope on any sort of purported authority or expert status.
Thus, Soynut butter I would suggest to those online article writers who do this that they should just write about what they know, their experiences, talents, knowledge, personal observations, then use the Internet to "check the facts." Why do I say this? Well, because if you are only compiling information from several other sources, this is nothing the reader could not do himself, thus why should he read your article?
Mixing and matching and compiling are not "Evil" but one should perhaps do more writing from real expertise and very little re-writing, compiling or concept copying. Of course this is my opinion. I see many people doing this, I wish humans would pony up and do more writing from their own minds than that of the Internet. Such activity for article writing is considered a "slippery slope" by many in the industry. What do you think?
"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.
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