[ SECRET POST #2958 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2958 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's so weird, I have never had to write an assignment I could have adapted Fanfic for (university level literature & culture studies). Is this an American thing?

[dreemyweird]

As I've mentioned to a person downthread, you get a lot of similar tasks in IB English LangLit! Back in the day, I completed a few assignments I could easily post on AO3 as fanfiction.

[(Anonymous)]

American here

Not an Eng/Creative Writing major but, never in my k-12 education did we do any creative writing beyond poems and haikus
A couple of my friends had to write a short story for one of their teachers but as far as I know, no one ever had some sort of assignment that even remotely resembled fanfiction

[(Anonymous)]

No. With the possible exception dreemyweird noted (which I personally never heard of before she mentioned it), this is not an actual thing. Which makes OP's concern a little more paranoid than it already is.

[(Anonymous)]

It can be done in creative writing classes. All they have to do is swap out the names and tweak a few things.

[(Anonymous)]

Any creative writing teacher worth his/her salt would be able to pick this up in a heartbeat. It's not just names that are a dead giveaway in fanfiction.

[(Anonymous)]

Depends how AU it is.

[(Anonymous)]

Most teachers I had warned us they'd be googling phrases from our assignments. And since at least one person got caught, they weren't lying. I have a hard time believing that so few teachers take such a basic precaution that there's any sort of widespread use of AO3 as a "free homework" engine.

Not to mention, there are so many easier classes out there, most of the people who are in a creative writing class are there because they actually want to write, and improve. This sort of thing sounds way more likely in a lit course where, again, fic won't work even if it's tweaked. Meta maybe. But not fic.

[(Anonymous)]

When I was in high school, we were assigned to write historical fiction (so, basically fanfic) about an author or artist of our choice. I've known a couple of people in college who have been assigned similar things, but I don't think it comes up very often.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're a creative writing major, you submit fiction for class. I took one of my unpublished fics, changed the names and adapted it for a class once. It was an AU so the universe and premise wasn't the same either. Anyway, yeah, fiction workshops require stories.

[(Anonymous)]

European, and regularly used fanfic-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off (my own fanfics, obviously) in my creative writing portfolio. As an undergrad, I was submitting assignments in the 2,500-10,000 word range, so that covers a huge amount of one-shot fanfics.

And this was a few years ago now, but I'm pretty sure none of my professors had any idea about fanfic at all, let alone would consider it as a potential avenue for plagiarism. Unless it was traditionally published in some form or another, it wouldn't have crossed their mind to wonder whether a piece had been lifted from someone's fanfic.