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If you turn in a paper for a college class, then two years later you are asked to turn in a paper on the same topic, it is ok to turn in that paper again.

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Answer:

Short answer: No, it's not ok

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Long answer:

Technically, no its not okay. Self-plagiarism is still considered plagiarism by academic standards. If a professor were to test it to see if it has already been written, and your old paper pops up, then it would be considered as cheating and plagiarism.

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