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Step (4) Then when I have all the basic information, I begin constructing the sentences.
In this step, I borrow clever phrases and strong vocabulary from everything I have read.
Some articles will have boring language in a description. Other articles will have strong phrases which serve to make powerful statements.
Then I start changing the sentences to basically, add to them, a lot of my own preferred vocabulary.
For example, a common verb is the word SHOWS. We all know what it means when a writer tells us that a certain fact SHOWS something.
I always change such words to a more sophisticated vocabulary which means exactly the same thing. In my essays SHOWS becomes "indicates," "demonstrates," "illustrates,"
"articulates," "enunciates," and so forth and so on. You see?
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CONCLUSION:
In the early steps, because perhaps I am not always an original thinker, I borrow sentences just as they were written. By the time I am finished, no sentence is ever the same as it was in its original form.
This prevents any reader from accusing me of a Plagiarism. Plagiarism is a form of stealing, where you copy entire paragraphs from some article, without quoting the original author as the source of the writing.
Actually, every essay can be enlarged, when you quote a few sentences or a paragraph here and there in an essay, to quote someone who is a credible authority. Scientists are good to quote, when their work is quoted from a Peer Reviewed Science Publication. Experts of all kinds are good for quoting on a subject.
Good luck with your essay on Earth Day.---Warm Regards, Bruce
