<p>Has anyone experienced plagiarism due to PMing your essay to people on CC?</p>
<p>Most of the people I did send my essays to responded, albeit some of them were rather limited in their response.</p>
<p>However, I am just getting very very paranoid because the prospects of being wrongfully thought of as having plagiarized, when I simply sent my essays to people on CC to see what a complete stranger would say about it, is not at all pleasing to me. An auto-reject, I do not wish for.</p>
<p>It's gotten so bad that I can't sleep well at night.</p>
<p>Here’s the way I see it:
Presumably you told whoever you sent your essay to at least some of the schools to which you’re sending it.
If not, it’s likely that, if they actually intended to steal it (unlikely to begin with), they looked in your old posts to find out.
Because not only would you be auto-rejected, they would too!
and there’s not much point in stealing an essay when you know it won’t do you any good.
So logically - it shouldn’t be a problem. </p>
<p>you know what, that’s a really valid point. i think people worry more about having their ideas stolen but am I correct to assume that you are afraid that you taking some ideas from this melting pot of essay sharing could be thought of as plagiarism [sorry haha, it’s 3 in the morning here…I may seem quite slow…but then again, I’m always slow, lol, ANYWHOO]? That’s the problem, inspiration or copying?</p>
<p>I think there are different ways to phrase EVERY new idea or proposal.</p>
<p>if your worry was the first, having others steal your work, then that’s the opportunity cost. putting your work out there is a test of audacity. so ask around? ask teachers and others who can give equally good if not better input and who won’t take your stuff?</p>
<p>But yeah, this is a dilemma:[
Other than that, I think you should sleep because there’s not that much you can do either way. Plus it’s the last day of 2009! Save those sleepless nights for next year.</p>
<p>Good Luck To You in whatever endeavour/academic pursuit you choose and I hope this essay thing cools down.</p>
<p>that would be horrible if someone actually plagiarized. i thought the whole point og PMing essays was to get peer evaluations? lol. but anyways, i dont think anyone would be so stupid as to copy and paste someone else’s essay. they are more likely to take a paragraph or something which admission officers are unlikely to remmeber after reading a bajillion of these lol. sleep tight.</p>
<p>Post your essays on Scripps if you are so worried. That is what I did. They can’t copy and paste so if they really want to steal they will have to go through excessive retyping to copy! :)</p>
<p>Just a word of advice… If you feel safe with someone send them your essay in text. I feel the same way, but I don’t mind if people bud ideas off me for essays, but definitely stealing one doesn’t work because they are so unique to my person. You should do the same with yours. By incoporating tidbits of your background etc into your essay, no one should be able to steal it.</p>
<p>well sometimes i find the short critiques are the most useful because they get straight to the point. (of course unless its like “good job. good essay”) Especially at this time, when people want opinions on their essays, a couple lines on what they need to clarify or expand can be helpful. </p>
<p>So don’t worry, no one steals essays on CC. Most of the times, people think their essays are a lot better than their essays actually are. If your essay is so good that other people are tempted to steal it, then you probably won’t need people to critique it. wink</p>
It’s unlikely anyway!</p>