Plagiarism (from Latin plagiare “to kidnap”) is the practice of claiming, or implying, original authorship or incorporating material from someone else’s written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one’s own without adequate acknowledgement.

So, technically, YOU have written the paper last year, and YOU are writing it again, and by definition this is not plagiarism.

However, I must strongly warn you, that there’s a good chance that your work will not be fairly graded because, what you want to do might sound to whomever evaluates your current paper like a manner of “repeating yourself”.

It’s not plagiarism, but I discourage you to proceed with this.

To make sure, ask a member of the faculty,wherever you study; someone who will give a certain answer.

Self-plagiarism is the reuse of significant, identical, or nearly identical portions of one’s own work without acknowledging that one is doing so or without citing the original work.

In academic fields, self-plagiarism is a problem when an author reuses portions of his or her own published and copyrighted work in subsequent publications, but without attributing the previous publication.

Identifying self-plagiarism is often difficult because of legal issues regarding fair use.

As compared to plagiarism, self-plagiarism is not yet very well-regulated. Some universities and editorial boards chose to not regulate it at all; those consider the term self-plagiarism oxymoronic since a person cannot be accused of stealing from himself.

For authors wishing to avoid potential issues when authoring new papers, the authors are strongly encouraged to follow these “best practices”:

Provide full disclosure — mention in the introduction that the new or derivative work incorporates texts previously published.

Ensure there is no violation of copyright.

Cite the old works in the references section of the new work.

It could be, if you don’t explicitly indicate what material you are re-using and where it came from. The more significant issue, though, is whether it’s academic misconduct to re-use parts of a paper. At some schools, apparently they don’t have a rule against submitting the same work in 2 classes without the express permission of both professors *in advance*, but all the ones I’ve looked at do. If that rule is in place at your college, I would not re-use parts of papers, either, without getting both professors’ permission, because there’s a good chance that it would be considered cheating. Your thinking has almost certainly changed since you wrote the last paper, though, especially as you have read more of what other writers have to say about the issues you were addressing. Moreover, your writing style has probably changed as well. Your paper will be better written — both style and substance — if you start from scratch even when you have already written about some of the issues before, *and* you won’t have to worry about being punished for academic misconduct. On the other hand, if you do use the older material, because both your thinking and writing have changed, the older parts are likely to stand out as possibly plagiarized and your work is likely to be scrutinized; if your professors both use plagiarism detection software the re-used material is extremely likely to be flagged. If you look at your school’s academic misconduct policy and find that double submissions are allowed — if you are allowed to submit 1 paper to 2 classes to receive credit in both — then you can re-use pieces of your older work, secure in the knowledge that you will have a solid defense to any charge that you cheated. But a charge is definitely possible. Personally, I’d rather not even be accused, because the memory of the accusation tends to last longer than the memory of the defense. But if you’re okay with having to defend your work and if your campus will allow the defense that the words are ones you lifted from an earlier paper of your own, then you should be okay.

Well it wouldn’t be plagiarism because its your paper. You should credit where you got it from though just to make sure you wont get in trouble. And if its just a little portion of it I’m sure it wont matter!

It is possible to plagiarize yourself. If you re-use text, whether word for word, or you paraphrase yourself, you need to cite your past work and make it available to whomever is reading it.

No, not if it’s your work. Plagiarism is copying someone else’s work.

It’s fine so long as you site yourself as a source. 😉

c-ya

lol no, i dont think anyone would really notice anyway so dont worry about it.