I Was Wrongly Accused of Plagiarism

For reworking an article originally published on my own blog!

I reworked an old article and submitted it to a Medium publication. Two sentences were the same as the original piece on Blogger. It’s clear it’s my own blog — My name gives it away! http://susiekearley.blogspot.com.

The publication guidelines say the editor may reject ‘reprints’. Fair enough. And they don’t tolerate plagiarism — I completely agree. But my submission hasn’t been previously published or plagiarised. It simply contains two sentences that were previously used on my own blog!

Anyway, after running it through a plagiarism checker, to see what the problem was, I explained, but the editor ignored me.

I guess I could have changed those two sentences and resubmitted, but I like those two sentences. I’ve not ripped off someone else’s work. So I’ve submitted it elsewhere. We’ll see how it goes!