I keep on telling these people they have a lot to learn about the internet. One of them is that the truth always catches up with you.

she has edited part of the original and added her own...the only problem from her piece is failing to give credit where its due...I think when you copy from multiple sources its Research .

I'm with @selah on this issue - the style/copied words would account for just half of the article. I actually note on the lists no effort on her part to conceal/deceive as her input is added in brackets in part.

The problem with most casual writers in the Internet age is the gravity of attribution escapes them [a lesson for us all].

On a separate issue, a very mortified CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria was recently reinstated after his unreserved apology for plagirism. His offence was just a paragraph long.

The lesson though is both were people the pack were after. Perhaps there is a case for treading lightly on the earth.

I'll explain why plagarism or copying content is frowned upon online and worse will get you sued very fast. I'm guessing the star website is hosted in the US. So it can be sued so she'd better apologise very quickly.

One of the items looked at by search engines to rank a website and quality score is original content.

If an article is first found in website A and then Website B copies that article, Website B is "punished" for having duplicate content. In some cases, both Website A and B are "punished" for having the same content.

The google algo can identify paragraphs, sentences, parts of sentences and even phrases to determine if the content is duplicate.

In fact, if you want to fail online, make it a habit to copy other people's content and you will fail.

So even if she copied a sentence, a phrase or anything it is hurting website A and depending on the mood of the owner of Website A, they can compel the hosting company to remove that article or worse remove the whole website.

That is how evil online companies think of people who are copycats as this case clearly illustrates.

Was about to say that but I hesitated. But it is a low for her. Kucopy.

the former, the latter requires the kind of brain power that inexplicably seems allergic to her.

From the reactions you'd think she's been accused of first degree murder!It seems guys were waiting on the edge of their seats for her to slip up.Noone is perfect,she should just apologise and life goes on.

Well, so far, she hasn't!

"When it comes to plagiarism, Mutoko aims for The Star" #CarolineMutokod from twitter

Guess if she was doing a term paper on the same topic (She was not long ago in class for some addition remember- where she earned good grades) and several others lift from the same source..No wonder you meet some of the lecturers with gloomy faces..Imagine reading the same answers for around 200 plagiarism students, you can have tired face, a very tired face.