[Stylist] Food for Thought

[Shelley Alongi]

Hello, interesting question. My personal answer to your question is if the sentence conveys the original meaning I will use it but sometimes I have changed the wording back to my original sentence because the changed sentence did not reflect the meaning I was trying to convey. So I have

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On Aug 19, 2021, at 11:51 PM, Vejas Vasiliauskas via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

Hi,
I hope you are all doing well and staying safe.
I have recently thought of something and was wondering what others think. I have known since very early on that plagarism is wrong. I was wondering, though, if someone is critiquing your work and suggests an edit for a sentence and says, "Maybe try this sentence instead." Is it OK to use the sentence they suggested, because technically that sentence is using the critiquer's words, not your own?
I hope this makes sense!
Thanks,
Vejas
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