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Originally Posted by TGS
To characterize what this author did as plagiarism is already to make a judgment about whether what she did was okay or not.
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarize
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: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
intransitive verb : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
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To characterize this as plagiarism is to know the definition of plagiarism. She wrote it up, made no indication that there was any mixing going on until after she was caught. Unlike the urinal example, there was no reason to think some of those pages were lifted in their entirety from someone else, and every reason to think they were her own.