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Q&A How do you write articles without plagiarizing when everything has essentially been said about the topic at hand?

Write about the articles themselves. Do research and summarize them; they can't all be identical. Then you can say, with credit, John Smith puts this point best, in his article "What to Do and...

posted 5y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-19T22:13:56Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T13:09:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T13:09:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
Write about the articles themselves. Do research and summarize them; they can't all be identical. Then you can say, with credit,

> John Smith puts this point best, in his article "What to Do and What to Not: Forming an LLC": [advice].

In other words, embrace the fact that there are so many articles, and use them. For every point you want to make, some one of those dozens or hundreds of authors said it best, or most clearly, or most succinctly. So use it. Tie them together. Don't use the same author twice, you don't want your reader to say "I should just read that guy".

Instead, you produce an article that seems to bring it all together, like in music the best hits in Country Music, 1970-1979, or whatever. You are adding value by showing them in ONE article what they would have to read twenty articles to see.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-10-20T14:19:15Z (about 5 years ago)
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