Is it a crime?

[Masplanc]

It's not bad or a plagiarism as far as the article belongs to you and if its not edited from someone else article. If your article is given to someone who can edit it to correct errors such like English and punctuation it is not a plagiarism or copied work.

[jrrsparkles]

Its not really comes under plagiarism, because plagiarism stands for copying someone's content and claims that its yours.

If you're English is bad still you can post as long as people can read and understand what you are actually trying to say, this is not a competition where you have to write articles with no grammar mistakes. But it will be better if there is no such mistakes which can be solved easily by using grammarly like application which will correct the spelling, punctuation and lot other mistakes for free and if you subscribe for premium version you can also get the corrected and appropriate sentences by the application itself.

[Mahiyammahi]

It won't be any plagiarism if your article not shared anywhere. It's not any crime also a lot of writter do such a thing. But you should try to develop your skill instead of relying someone.
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It doesn't means that you cant write if your english is poor. Start with ur poor english you will find a lot teaching u in online.

[Coyster]

As other users have said, it doesn't fall under the offense of plagiarism, so long as it's just your English that the person would correct, but mind you that you could prolly give someone an article of yours to edit and the person goes on to cut out numerous parts of your write-up to either include their thoughts or something they got from the internet, if you post such articles on the forum and your "editor" does that continually, then you could probably be accused of plagiarism or stealing lines out of other people's work, thus what I'm basically saying is you should make it clear to your proof-reader what exactly you want from them so you don't get into trouble, or you better just choose an online tool to help you with this.

[BIT-BENDER]

Is is a crime or a plagiarism if you know that your english is not very good. You write a long arricle and give it to another person to correct the english in the article for you before you will now post it in the group or forum.

No that shouldn't be a plagiarism, but I think some caution should be taken like the person you giving the article in order to correct for bad grammar, punctuation marks and spelling should be sure to do only correction and no improvising or trying to and article from some else to it, also if you aren't go in english and you feel you should write in it, then take out time to learn it, you may find it easy to learn in a short time.

[FatFork]

No it has not happen. It was what I am thinking to do. I want to know if is a crime first.

Of course, this is not a crime. That is, essentially, just proofreading. There are people who do this professionally, for money. Copy editors do the job of proofreading, but before that they go through an extensive training program.

[bhooscream]

Is is a crime or a plagiarism if you know that your english is not very good. You write a long arricle and give it to another person to correct the english in the article for you before you will now post it in the group or forum.

If the idea comes from yourself and if you insert also the source link if you took a quote, it doesn't mean that you are plagiarism and a crime. No.
It is like proofreading, grammar correction, and also editing. This is actually normally done by some content articles also that commonly use this way to make articles more friendly to read, well readable, and also human friendly.

[Alisha-k]

There's nothing wrong with that but it could be risky if the person involved in the editing isn't trust worthy.
Let's say you create an idea yourself and hand it over to someone who is in the forum and then the person edits it and post it before handing the edited work over to you.

Just be careful while giving out your work, they're professionals who specialise in editing works, you could always hire their services.

[bittraffic]

It's called proofreading which that someone who reviews what you have written is going to correct the mistakes you have written. A proofreader is actually a job position in some publishing companies. It's not a crime but writers normally need proofreaders for grammar and punctuation correction. I guess OP is rich enough to hire someone to read and correct his articles.

A crime is rewriting someone else article but somehow, it becomes legal in the eyes of the search engines because it's all that matters now as long as search engine bots see the article as unique.

[dbc23]

Is is a crime or a plagiarism if you know that your english is not very good. You write a long arricle and give it to another person to correct the english in the article for you before you will now post it in the group or forum.

It's not a crime if you get your article corrected by people provided you did the job yourself and there is no future proof of plagiarism. The idea is to sell what you have which is expressed in thoughts and idea. But other than give people your job for correction you can still express your self in your local board to avoid been blackmailed by the person whom you hired to edit your job.

[uchegod-21]

I have learn many things here. Thank you everyone. Everyone is saying the same thing and advising me. I have seen many good advice I will take here.

• I will not give anybody my work to correct me
• I will download grammarly application

The people here will not care too much for grammar. If I can write what people will read and understand. Little by little everything will be fine with me. Am happy everyone.

[OddyseyGames]

I have learn many things here. Thank you everyone. Everyone is saying the same thing and advising me. I have seen many good advice I will take here.

• I will not give anybody my work to correct me
• I will download grammarly application

The people here will not care too much for grammar. If I can write what people will read and understand. Little by little everything will be fine with me. Am happy everyone.

I also recommend the Grammarly app. It is installed as a browser plugin. [/list]

[BernyJB]

uchegod: if I understand this correctly, you gave your post to somebody else for correction and they posted it as if it was theirs.

No it has not happen. It was what I am thinking to do. I want to know if is a crime first.

Well, the definition of "crime" varies. What I would be worried about is if it's ethical to do so.
Personally, despite practical considerations that have been stated before, I think using somebody else's work without their consent and not giving them due credit for it is morally repugnant.
You can learn before, and then do your own work. The whole "my English is not good" excuse is BS, in my opinion. Like I said before, there's a whole lot of people here whose English is far from perfect (including me), and we go from taking forever to carefully craft each post, to just do their best and let other people to deal with it. 

[isaac_clarke22]

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Hi, OP.
If the advices were already enough from the previous replies, I would advise you to lock this topic now. You don't really need a perfect grammar, but when it comes to writing an article, you might need to practice your grammar further.
Wishing you the best there, OP.

[suzanne5223]

It is not crime or plagiarism if ask a friend for help to correct some error in an article you wrote but it will only be plagiarism if the friend decides to post the article before you after she's done correcting the article.
So, I hope the person is someone you totally trust because there is some situation where someone else ideas are stolen.

[og kush420]

Is is a crime or a plagiarism if you know that your english is not very good. You write a long arricle and give it to another person to correct the english in the article for you before you will now post it in the group or forum.

I don't know what makes you think its a crime, imo its perfectly legitimate. Its good that one knows his English is not upto the mark and uses services of expert to polish the article before posting on Web. You can also use tools like grammerly to correct English.

[pawanjain]

Is is a crime or a plagiarism if you know that your english is not very good. You write a long arricle and give it to another person to correct the english in the article for you before you will now post it in the group or forum.

Plagiarism is when you copy somebody else's content and post it as yours. That's when the bells ring and you invite trouble to your profile.
But if you are making your own content and posting it here with the help of someone else then there's probably no harm in it.
Also, you can use tools like Grammarly and others to correct your grammatical mistakes before posting.
Below is a link to tools which are alternative to grammarly just in case you decide to go for it.

https://www.grammarlookup.com/grammarly-alternatives/

[Issa56]

I don't really think that's a scam  because the article is written by you, the article you write is your knowledge so you giving someone close to you to make correction I don't think that's a crime, because if anybody search the article it can't be found anywhere nobody can claim is there own because it has not been published by anybody, but I believe you have to be very careful with the person you are giving the article to check for you, if the person endup stealing your post and publishing it before you then I believe if you post thesame thing then you have plagiarised because there is no way you can claim you are the owner of the article because it was published before you.

[worle1bm]

The one I put in yellow color is a problem. My article will be too fine and another article will not be fine.
Is good somebody will teach me and I will be trying all by myself.

You would be just fine by saying that English is not your native language. in cases that people ask various questions to you. It won't be a problem in either's end.
Just keep practicing your English writing skills, so you won't depend in any tools or from someone's aid to help you with that.

That will help him a lot if he learn English himself because most of the forum posts are in that language and if you want to share your ideas you can directly convey it to all easily.

But that's not the crime if you say as we have seen some members saying it to translate to other languages their own thread if it is useful and can help the community as a whole.Other members have already said and explain the main parts to you.

[witcher_sense]

It is not crime or plagiarism if ask a friend for help to correct some error in an article you wrote but it will only be plagiarism if the friend decides to post the article before you after she's done correcting the article.
So, I hope the person is someone you totally trust because there is some situation where someone else ideas are stolen.

If the person you asked to correct your article has posted the given article first, it won't be plagiarism since the original version has never been known to the public. Naturally, you will know that someone has clearly stolen your work, but you are going to have hard times trying to convince others you were an original author. There are some important steps that should be taken before you send your work to another person for either correction or publication. For example, if you're not very good at English, then first write an article in your native language, post it somewhere, save all the drafts, and only then translate it to English. It will be easier for you to protect your copyrights if you have all the evidence of your authorship on hand in both digital and physical forms.