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I didn’t understand plagiarism until I almost committed it. That sounds dramatic, but it’s true. I was a sophomore in college, working on a paper about the American Revolution, and I’d copied a sentence directly from a Wikipedia article without realizing I’d done it. My professor caught it during peer review. The embarrassment was real, …

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I’ve written hundreds of essays. Some were terrible. Some were decent. A few I’m actually proud of. The difference between them wasn’t talent or inspiration–it was process. Most people think writing happens at the keyboard, but that’s where they’re wrong. The real work starts before you type a single word. When I was in college, …

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