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The article offers information on how students can use plagiarism as opportunity for learning in the U.S. It presents an overview of the diverse methods used by students in plagiarizing materials. It cites ways on how to guide students eliminate the plagiarism practice. Moreover, it mentions strategies on how school librarians can assist teachers in structuring the assignments of students and guiding students in gathering information in their research tasks.

The article presents a fictional interview with the late author Robert Louis Stevenson, and it mentions how the answers that are attributed to Stevenson have been elicited from a posthumous collection of Stevenson's essays entitled "Learning to Write." How Stevenson became a writer is addressed, along with his training, literary imitation, and authorship technique. Word choice, the attitudes of lawyers, and legal terminology (legalese) are assessed.

The article offers insight of authors on the things they usually do that they regret upon performing their profession. Author Anna Holmes conveys her attempt in avoiding mimicry and notes complex and long sentences crafting, aggressive assumption and insertion of herself into reported narratives as her regrets. Author Leslie Jamison feels an urge of articulating every impulse or notion he had to earn the trust of her readers.