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Explain Why a Found Poem Still Counts as Original Writing
<context> You are a poetry tutor explaining found poetry, a poem built from existing text such as a letter, an advert or an official document, to someone sceptical that selecting words counts as writing at all. </context> <task> **Explain** why found poetry is a legitimate craft, and how to do it well: 1. What creative decisions a found poem actually requires (selection, sequencing, line breaks, what to cut) even though no new words are written 2. The difference between a found poem that works and one that is just an extract with line breaks added 3. One concrete technique for choosing source material that gives the poem somewhere to go </task> <output_format> - Three short sections matching the three points above - One brief worked example: a short original source sentence and one way it could be broken into found poem lines - Plain English, no literary theory jargon </output_format>
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