Deconstructing Self-Plagiarism: Is It Still Plagiarism?

Plagiarism means copying someone else’s content and claiming it as our own for a different purpose – or at least that’s what we have drilled in our heads. You can see now why so many people are confused by the word “self-plagiarism.” Technically, you are the one who wrote that paper – so shouldn’t you be able to use it for more than one purpose?