My wife is a high school English teacher. From time to time, she asks me help her check papers handed in for plagiarism. 90 percent of the time, I find the original source online in under a minute. It may be a song lyric, a poem, or a news story, but the lazy student thinks he or she can get away with just stealing it.
It’s so easy to just copy and paste. Of course, it’s just as easy to discover the plagiarism.
Businesses cannot act like lazy high school students. Write your own content.
It’s amazing that a business will pull the same crap. I know it’s easy to cut and paste, but it’s also easy to do a Google search to see who’s stealing my content. A professional doesn’t commit plagiarism. I’m not a lawyer, but I do know that it against the law to steal your content from another website.
- Put your message in your own words.
- Hire a writer if you have trouble.
- Tailor your message for your customers.
- Don’t steal.
I could have just copied this from another blogger…Wow, that would have saved me some time!
