He looked up. “Why?”
“You can’t write an article by copying verbatim from Wikipedia or published reports,” she said. “That’s plagiarism.”
“So what?” he said. “You’re an editor. Edit.”
“No. This can’t be edited,” she said. “This I’ll have to research and completely rewrite.”
“I did research,” he said. “I put a lot of work in. I don’t know why you’re having a problem.”
She took a deep breath. “It does need the work.”
“And I’m not even a writer,” he crowed.
“No shit,” she said to herself.