TRANSCRIPT: One of your professors assigns a paper and gives the class a choice of topics. One of the options is censorship, you have already written a paper on the same topic for a course you took two years ago when you were a student at another college. For this previous paper you did a lot of work, your main arguments were strong, and you included many outside sources.
Your mark was a B, but the professor had included a lot of good feedback. You choose this topic again because of the fact you already know a lot about it and are confident you'll receive a good mark. Since the topic is the same as the one for your previous paper, you decide to reuse some of the same content from that previous assignment for this new paper.
As you work on your new paper, you use the same arguments and the same evidence, changing words here and there. You change the introduction in order to add in some of the information your new professor has discussed in class. You also incorporate the feedback your previous professor had provided on your original paper, which makes your current paper even better. You complete the assignment and submit it to your professor.