Researched and documented in detail, how Wallace Stegner's plagiarism was flat out theft. Non-writers don't seem to get it. What if you came home from vacation to find your house, cars, and everything gone? But plagiarism is even worse because the writing is the artist's personal creation and someone with a lack of ideas and no talent is taking it as their own.

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Definition of plagiarism. Given what's explained above, three out of the four bullet points would apply.

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