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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarize
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.
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So now she characterizes her novel as mixing, and has acknowledged her sources (apparently six pages of them - which doesn't suggest she simply took large chunks of some other persons work and called them her own, but actually "mixed" strings of words from a variety of sources - including her own head), the book can be judged on its literary merits, wouldn't you agree?