The Essay “Chris Cecil, plagiarism gets you fired” by Leonard Pitts Jr. is written from a very damaged and hurt author. The essay begins by stating that writing even a simple newspaper column involves painfully slow writing and editing until you are happy enough with the result. It then goes on to show how a writer (Chris Cecil) has been copying another writer’s articles and hardly changing more than a few words, and passing it off as his own work. The writer that had been plagiarized off compares stealing his articles to having his house burglarized, and the feeling of violation that comes with that. This Essay has really shown me how attached a writer can be to his writing. Before reading this article I never thought that plagiarizing another writer’s work would offend the writer. However, I now realize that because writing is this person’s job, it is also their life, and stealing that can hurt. If a writer isn’t writing their own articles, then is that person even a writer?
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