The Poynter Institute has evencreated a handy flow chartto help journalists and editors identify plagiarism, patchwriting, and theft of ideas. Their description contains a definition ofpatchwritingthat is similar to Professor Howard’s: If a journalist has mirrored the language of another author save ...
Is Patchwriting the same as paraphrasing? The presentation refers to “patchwriting.” The presenter should spend a few moments defining patchwriting as a way of misusing sources in which someone copies the original language but changes every few words or uses synonyms.Patchwriting is not paraphrasing...