thank you so much fuzzylogician, the fact that you even responded to me in the first place and took the time to read my post makes me ever so grateful for your your response
I truly appreciate your response!
well actually what worries me is that last week, i submitted my final paper for a course
i was doing an allnighter and i was really tired
so I'm not even sure if I directly took a sentence from an essay cuz I was so tired, I could barely keep my eyes open
I already submitted the essay and now that I think retrospectively back to this incident, it haunts me still
the final mark is out, I got an A in the course
I'm concerned about one sentence, this sentence was 62 words long
I'm worried that the first half of the sentence (which is 21 words, yes I counted... I'm an Obssessive perfectionist) was copied word for word, and
the fact that I was so sleepy during that time could have led to this, IF THIS HAPPENED, my memory is distorted....
I know I have the potential to get a PHD one day (because I'm determined)
but just worried that my PHD will be revoked one day, because the prof will look back to these 21 words
I'm particularly worried about a phenomenon known as CRYPTOMNESIA, where I believe what I wrote was new and original, but was actually plagiarized
I'm afraid of this because I was really sleepy at that time
I'm not even sure that I copied it word for word or not
I keep on copying and pasting these 21 words into Google search and Google scholar, no matching results come up, so I think I should be fine?
I go back to a potential paper where I could have gotten this idea from, nope, no matching results come up
my course grade is already out, I got an A,
and I know that I shall never pull an all nighter again, cuz they're not good for my health,
and I know never to plagiarize, plagiarism is wrong and dishonest
but the other half of me is haunting me.... I know I worry I lot, and I promise this is my last question....
Thank you fuzzylogician!
I'm worried about having experienced CRYPTOMNESIA and worried about having plagiarized half a sentence
(this sentence is 62 words in length, but the first half of the sentence, which I am worried about having plagiarized, is 21 words in length
sorry for worrying so much! this is haunting me! haha, I promise this is my last question!
What's your take on this?
Should I be worried about having my PHD in the future revoked because of this incident that happened last week, potentially (but not definitely) relevant to cryptomnesia?