Question about applications

[Bunz916]

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Hey everyone, I have a question about the personal statement. Is it okay to use the same personal statement from my pharmcas application for schools that don't use pharmcas? Or would that be plagiarizing?

 

[30Percent]

That's fine and wouldn't be plagiarizing.

 

[smercer]

How can you even plagiarize yourself?

 

[Corpseman]

How can you even plagiarize yourself?

You cant.

 

[Ayuka001]

It's fine to do that

 

[Bows]

You cant.

Yes you can. The OP asked a valid question. Aside from this instance, if you submit a paper to let's say your ENC1101 course about a president, then submit it to your history course a year later, that counts as plagiarism.

 

[seaswim]

Yes you can. The OP asked a valid question. Aside from this instance, if you submit a paper to let's say your ENC1101 course about a president, then submit it to your history course a year later, that counts as plagiarism.

Really? How?

If you wrote it, its your work and you are free to do what you please with it.

 

[Corpseman]

Yes you can. The OP asked a valid question. Aside from this instance, if you submit a paper to let's say your ENC1101 course about a president, then submit it to your history course a year later, that counts as plagiarism.

I 'd love to debate this, but it is much easier to just do a quick google search.

Maybe it is getting into semantics, but no you cannot self-plagiarize. It is possible to get into trouble if the professor thinks that you stole from the intellectual material of a previous course....if they count prompts as intellectual material that cannot be used again.

 

[The Recoverer]

Yes you can. The OP asked a valid question. Aside from this instance, if you submit a paper to let's say your ENC1101 course about a president, then submit it to your history course a year later, that counts as plagiarism.

Bows. it helps if you do some research before jumping to conclusions

Plagiarism is theft of another person's writings or ideas. Generally, it occurs when someone steals expressions from another author's composition and makes them appear to be his own work.

Unless OP clones himself, he is in the clear. You can't plagiarize yourself because it's already your own work in the first place.

 

[Kwiz]

What if you had your name legally changed, and the new you liked the old you's old work (new at the time for the old you) but the new you wanted to still be the new you while using that same paper you wrote when the new you was still the old you?

But in all seriousness, doesn't the 5th amendment prevent you from self incriminating yourself either way? Yes.

Can't plagiarize yourself, because you can't try to pass off work as your own, unless it's not your own. In other words, nobody gives a ****, and if they do, tell them to get a hobby.

 

[owlegrad]

I have had classes where the prof specifically said no reusing any of your own (previous) work, but it still is not plagiarism.

 

[Bows]

I have had classes where the prof specifically said no reusing any of your own (previous) work, but it still is not plagiarism.

I apologize. You're all correct. Ever since high school my teachers have never allowed this and would call it "plagiarism" although it really isn't. Just policy I guess.