Meaning of autoplagiarism | Babel Free

Definitions

The republishing or resubmitting of one's own work as if it were original.

uncountable

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Examples

“A few lines are likewise borrowed from poems which I had written on ephemeral occasions. In this auto-plagiarism, I can quote a Virgil and a Byron for authority.”

“We should say⟳ much more in the present⟳ instance, had it not fallen to our reviewing lot to have⟳ spoken quite to the point⟳ before, and we must not be guilty of plagiarizing — no, not even of auto-plagiarism.”

“Is autoplagiarism a crime, or a sin, or a fault, or a foible? Town Topics calls attention to "the boldness that has been exhibited by Alfred Henry Lewis in the gentle art of filching from his own⟳ published works to lighten the burdens of authorship."”

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