My daughter wrote a great essay last year in AP English class. She would like to use the topic for her Common Application essay. It it OK to tweak a previously written essay? She worries about plagiarism, even though she wrote it.
Wow that’s really a scary thought ><
If we copy the link of our previous essay while posting it or submitting to somewhere else that can help?
Momofthree95, that should be no issue unless CB made your essay public… not like your daughter or anyone else can access their phones and jot essays down verbatim during the exam, so no reason for CB to feed essays into checking systems either.
When your using parts of your own work from a previous essay I think you are ok. The only time I’d worry with that is if the essay has previously been made public. Now, you run the risk of your original work being taken by someone else. This now opens you up to the plagiarism aspect if someone else uses it and then you use it.
If I include my name at the end, would it be ok?
I just made this mistake and found this thread just in time to edit the post myself. Is there anyone in this thread I could pm my essay to for some feedback?
Thanks for the heads up! I’ll let the students I work with know in case they ever considering doing it.
Hi, I’m reading this only now and yesterday I posted my college essay public by mistake. I’m still not sure if I was able to fully delete it, could you check for me? thank you so much.