Captain John Smith

Was John Smith a writer that scholars and researchers today can rely on for an accurate recounting of history? Can his account of events be trusted? What were his strengths and weaknesses as a writer? What is the reason that he writes in the third person? These are questions that will be addressed in this paper.

According to scholarly research that has been published about Smith and about his writing, he was not a very good writer and indeed he plagiarized in many of his writings, although it is also true that in some instances he mentioned the name of the author that he had "borrowed" from at the end of the piece. He would sometimes mention the author he was copying from at the end of the writing, but readers cannot know exactly what text he stole from whom because he did not footnote or otherwise...
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