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@^@f02@t1@cArticles straight from books



@ta@f00Certain  guys believe that certain mags
just take a book  and  copy the text in
it, without giving credits to  the real
writer, or  without  even  saying  they
copied it. Is this correct?

Before  I  start, I'd like to point out
the difference between  copying  a text
and taking the good parts out of a text
or writing a new text based on the ori-
ginal text. Copying a text is clear, of
course. But  you can also take the good
parts out of a certain text and make it
shorter (or even  longer), an add  some
personal ideas to it. Or  just  rewrite
a text and take only the facts  from  a
certain article  (this  is  what  I  do
quite often...).

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OK. Of course now it's very lame to sim
ply take a book and write  the  article
down.  It  shows  no  originality. But,
there are also some good reasons for do
ing this. This argument might  only  be
understood by well-known and  fast  ar-
ticle-writers  (like  I  am, hehe):  It
costs a lot of time to write a good ar-
ticle, check it for  spelling-mistakes,
edit it  (Yo Drokk), etc... So  it  can
happen some times  that you find an ar-
ticle in a book that is  just great, it
can easily be published. But this can't
happen  too  often, of  course, because
there won't be too many articles around
that are good enough.

So it would be a good excuse to copy an
@#

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@^@f00@taarticle from a  book, but  now  I  only
mean this when  you  give credits, etc,
or at least SAY that you have copied it
from one periodical or another. If  you
simply copy it and say  nothing, or  if
you copy almost everything  you  write,
I am  really wondering what will become
of you. How many of you are taking this
writing articles serious?? A completely
different question, I know that, but al
so  quite  interesting.  Because  don't
tell me that  mag-makers make  the  mag
just for fun, because  I  don't believe
that. Especially  not  from  the bigger
mags, like  Zine, Hack-Mag and Ice, and
Stolen  Data, of  course.  But  anyway,
that was not what I was bulling  about.

Last possibility: Re-write a comlete ar
ticle. As said, I do this  quite often.
Actually, I walk with a  bloc-note  day
in day out and write down every subject
(and some words or sentences  connected
@^with it) I think is interesting to wri-
te about. And that's quite  a  lot. But
who's  interested in that. Anyway, when
you want to keep  up-to-date  with  the
news you could start to read  a  paper,
and most of the time you see some  news
that could be used in a computer-mag as
well, so you take the  article, cut  it
out, study on it for five  minutes  (if
you have a  photographical  memory)  or
read it for  half  an  hour (if you are
stupid) and then write  a  cool  story.

Heck. I don't  even know what I started
to say. So I'd better  stop  now. Moral
of this  story: Read  books, and  don't
read the comic only  in a newspaper. Or
I'll teach you!!

                             @t4Cybersonik
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