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Above all, maintain hopeSarah Zarbock said:“The hardest thing aboutwriting is applying theseat of your pants to theseat of your chair”“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have toget it right the first time — unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”- Robert Cormier“There is no great writing, only great rewriting.”- Justice Louis Brandeis“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”- Walter Gretzky (Wayne’s dad)Who says editing isn’t fun!• Man has been interested insex ever since he discoveredthe use of his hands.Step 4Avoid plagiarism• John left clinical practice toassume a missionaryposition.Some definitionsYou are plagiarizing if you fail to giveacknowledgement when1. Repeating another’s words (or even aparticularly apt term)2. Paraphrasing another’s argument3. Presenting another’s line ofthinking(MLA Handbook, , 4th ed)Another definitionPlagiarism is passing off anotherperson’s work as if it were your own:1. failing to cite quotations and borrowedideas2. failing to enclose borrowed language inquotation marks3. failing to put summaries andparaphrases in your own words(Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)7