Plagiarism paper

So plagiarism. How does one write a paper about plagiarism? More specifically, how does one write about plagiarism, not in the academic sense, but in the popular authorship sense?

Well, um, that's what I had to do. I started by doing quite a lot of research, mostly from snippets of articles I'd read about JK Rowling being accused of plagiarism all the time. They have an entire Wikipedia article deticated to it. (Not that I USED the Wikipedia article, but they are a good way to gain more info on a subject and find begining sources.) So I read all about that. Then I did a lot of googling and looked various buzzwords up on the UHCL databases. The more one is informed on the subject, the easier it is to write a paper, and that's a fact.

Once I had a decent idea of several instances of plagiarism and how they happened (AKA, I got a good idea of the problem) I sat down and thought about why that problem was bad. One of the authors said she didn't consider plagiarism cheating, but honoring the original author. Why didn't I agree with her? This is something I needed to consider. Once you get your own opinion worked out well enough, that's also a good indication of your paper going in the right direction.

Our plagiarism paper simply highlighted a problem; there was no need to think up a solution. I decided not to waste the brain cells. I then chose an audience who would care about popular author plagiarism: the people who stand to make money off of them: publishers.

Incidently, I'm afraid publishing is going to be a thing of the past in 100 years. Like the era of the big movie studios owning actors. With online self-publishing, no one's going to need publishing and only a few people now bother with it because it's so damn difficult. Which sucks, because I kinda wanted to go into publishing. RANT OVER.

So then, based on my research and my audience, I sat down to write the paper. Wasn't that difficult, really, in fact one of the easier papers this semester to write when I thought it was going to be one of the harder papers. YAY.

Alrighty, I think that's about it.

p.s. I hate memo format.