Plagiarized or Prepublished

By Cathy Smith

Jenny is determined to keep up her grades so she can enter an Ivy League school even though she's unable to attend classes because of her illness, but is she willing to cheat to do it?

 

Proctor the school's new virtual assistant and plagiarism checker has flagged her final assignment as plagiarized from sources on the internet.

 

When her teacher Martha informs her of this Jenny claims the work was a fan essay she'd wrote for a LitRPG fansite. If this is true does this count as plagiarism or prepublishing? Jenny's scholastic career hangs on the answer to this question in this short story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cathy Smith
• Release date: Jan 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393621164

Cathy Smith

Cathy Smith is a Mohawk writer who lives on a Status Reservation on the Canadian Side of the Border on Turtle Island (North America). She is proud of her people’s heritage and also has an interest in the myths and legends of other peoples and cultures, and modern fantasy and science fiction, which is often derived from past myths and often acts as myths for modern times.

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Plagiarized or Prepublished

Cathy Smith

Published by Cathy Smith, 2021.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

PLAGIARIZED OR PREPUBLISHED

First edition. January 4, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 Cathy Smith.

ISBN: 978-1393621164

Written by Cathy Smith.

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