I was so impressed by the words of John Donne. He considers every human being is an author and everything in our lives just like the article post on a column. Not just an article can be on column, the things happen in lives can also be showed in a way of pictures, sound, video to post in the record of lives. And he also leads to the point that every people is unique and you cannot use his works with permission. Then I was a bit confused when understanding what is plagiarism. The writer mentioned two explanation when there are two works that are quite similar. One is called cryptomnesia, the writer come to this idea by himself. The other is that he gets his works from others. Then how can we know what is the case? So I keep reading to find what is plagiarism. When reading further, I found that that the second case happens often. People steal works form the other books. Then I also noticed that this is quite a common things and it seems like a skill that can be learned. This phenomenon do not just happens in writing but also happens in almost all field which produce self-creating works.
This makes me feel a bit anxious and a bit worried. I am anxious because I was also searching for the method of coding online, and at first I forgot to cite the source, so to some degree it is plagiarism. I am a bit worried is that if I work as a creator and create a work of my own, maybe it will be plagiarism by someone. But soon I found my way there. When you are creating something, most of us get the some of the ideas from others works then we add something new to it which is great. When you are inspired by some artworks to create a new artwork, it doesn’t mean you are plagiarizing. We just need to cite the source of others work. I will pay attention to this cause I found myself didn’t do this that well and it will cause serious things when other sued you for plagiarizing which is a huge problem nowadays.
To help solve this problem, maybe the government can set up some rules to set plagiarism apart from inspiration. Also they can give some examples of plagiarism to help the creators better understanding the differences between plagiarism and inspiration,