Post by Jenna Smoker on Sept 10, 2014 0:10:20 GMT
I enjoyed reading this article. It’s crazy how much Edwards plagiarized Tolme’s book. The overall placing of his words into her book was terrible. Stating facts about meerkats in the middle of a romantic novel doesn’t even make the slightest bit of sense. It was just placed there, as if Edwards had nothing good to fill in the missing spaces of her novel. This situation as a writer would make me think about whether my other books had been plagiarized as well. Readers don’t want to read someone else’s work in author’s stories, they want to read the author’s words, learn who they are as a writer, know their voice/style of writing. Tolme, you can tell, is a good person. Rather than bashing on Edwards with how she plagiarized his book the whole article is reversed the focus at the end to show how what is happening in the meerkat habitats is way worse than any amount of plagiarism. He definitely feels very strongly about the subject. In this situation, suing the person who plagiarized you might not even be worth it. The fact that the certain author even plagiarized, makes them look worse as a writer and will already bring on consequences for that person. Overall, I enjoyed the idea of the article.