Plagiarize This

Almost as much fun as plagiarizing was, even more fun was telling everyone my homework was to plagiarize at will.
"I'm going to the library to pick out a book and completely plagiarize it for my paper."
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"You're what?"

At first glance, I thought the assignment was going to be easy. When I actually got down to writing though, I realized that it reminded me of ghostwriting in the sense that I had to camouflage my writing in order to blend in with the plagiarized text. Furthermore, as a huge hint to anyone who's reading mine, I didn't know exactly how to go about blending my own text and the real text in-so I made up whole paragraphs instead of slyly inserting words or sentences and rearranging the syntax. Unfortunately for me, I do think my plagiarism should be somewhat easier to detect because of this.

Finally, I also did not feel a sense of guilt as some others said they felt in class. I did feel somewhat more detached, but objectively, I knew I had to plagiarize for the assignment and I did. I went to the library with a specific purpose in mind to pick out a random book, discredit that author's work, and use it as my own. As "cold" as that may sound, if it was the assignment, I had no choice other than to do it, and I didn't have any lingering doubts about it.

When I think about it, the difference between plagiarism and non plagiarism is a couple quotation marks and some brief annotation at the end stating where those words originated from. That's all it takes to change from receiving an "A" on a paper to getting kicked out of school.