Guettarda wrote:
In the case of Oskar's first question, when you read a book to write a summary, or view a film to write a summary, it constitutes OR. I suppose ideally what you should be doing in consulting book or film reviews, and using them to construct your own. Why is it a problem? For the most part, it probably isn't. Nonetheless, if you are doing more than relating the simple facts of the movie, it becomes a creative endeavour, and that isn't a good thing.
Calling this OR is a little severe. It has the effect of applying higher standards to fiction than to non-fiction. Accuracy in reporting on the real world should be more important. A work of fiction is its own verifiable evidence of what it contains.
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