Can I copy this stuff?

• No, you may not copy and paste my material.
• All material here is copyright to me - Shabana Mir. You may NOT copy it and represent it as your own.
• You may also NOT copy and paste it on your website or your term paper with a teeny-tiny link. If you really enjoy something I wrote, please post a LINK on your website. I would love it if you said that I wrote something you liked.
• Please do NOT copy and paste a blog post in its entirety.
• If you really do want to give your readers something to be excited about, please provide a short excerpt. I normally consider a short excerpt to be 20-30% of the post, no more.
• I get quite offended when an entire post is copied, with not even my name clearly on the post. In fact, don’t do it in general, to anyone’s writing. It’s close to plagiarism in intent, even if you do have a link somewhere embedded in the text. If a careless reader who doesn’t follow every link on your post might get the mistaken impression that you wrote it, it’s not cricket.
• If you’re using my material for something else in a different medium, print or sound, please cite clearly, providing the writer, the source and the URL.
• If you pick up an idea or a phrase from me, and weave your own writing around it, in that event you should cite me as well. (hint, hint, bloggers).
• This advice will serve you well no matter what you’re quoting/citing. Plagiarism is like stealing and you should avoid it.