Title: 
Maintaining Article Integrity

Word Count:
233

Summary:
Writing top quality, original articles begins with you. Some "writers" are falling into schemes that smack of plagiarism and are diminishing the writing industry. How about you? Are you doing your part to maintain article integrity?


Keywords:
writer, editor, publisher, freelance writer, edit, publish, article integrity, article submissions


Article Body:
Inasmuch as I enjoy writing, I do not enjoy participating in schemes to create “templated” articles for other "authors" to use or misuse to their delight. Or, at the very least, to profit from my hard work!

On occasion, I am asked by a client to take someone else's article, make some changes, and make it <em>their</em> article. Quite frankly, this smacks of plagiarism...I won't do it, so please don't ask!

Instead, if there is a general idea in a particular article that strikes a responsive chord in you, I would be interested in taking a look at the article and see if it inspires me to create original work. The key, of course, is <em>original</em> work, not a rip off of someone else’s writings and not a thinly disguised rewrite of the article.

My policy regarding working for others is this: if you trust my writing talents, you can trust that what I write for you will be "knock their socks off" good writing that will stand on its own two feet. 

A good writer is a wellspring of original material while a poor writer hangs on to coattails of other writers or, worse, steals their information outright. Don’t get caught up in the “article mill” schemes that some so-called writers are involved in. Your reputation is at stake and you will be found out.