<p>Yeah, self-plagiarism is just idiotic.</p>
<p>@DCSPORTSFAN</p>
<p>i cosign as well!</p>
<p>@DCSPORTSFAN</p>
<p>I think the whole topic of “self-plagiarism” in a sense could be spun up into a “you’re cheating yourself” offense. Basically, a form of cheating is being reported, even though you’re cheating off of yourself. It sounds ridiculous, but I know quite a few legalistic people out there who believe in the literal meaning of words and phrases (without caring about differing definitions per circumstance), also despite the fact that topics like self-plagiarism and “cheating yourself” involves subjective interpretation of ethics, and other crapola. Stuff like this makes me think the world is becoming too politically correct and uninteresting.</p>
<p>Most of my classes here have made me submit the drafts to turnitin.com , so enjoy it while you can! (though there’s always ways to get around turnitin…)</p>
<p>My cc used turnitin all of the time. I am quite shocked that others didn’t.</p>
<p>I cant believe this isn’t allowed! I started doing this all the time when my community college English professor told us that we should do this. I just always figured it was a smart thing to do. I have never seen anything in a syllabus about using old papers that you have written, are you sure this falls under plagiarism?</p>
<p>Never did it before, but I use all types of tricks to artificially expand the ones i write.</p>
<p>Never did it. I value my integrity.</p>
<p>Aha. Now it makes sense my professors textbooks will often cite earlier research done by themselves. I always thought they were showing off… hahahahaha.</p>