Johnson-Eilola
and Selber’s concept of assemblage directly relates to remix’s that we have
been discussing in class for the last couple weeks. They both involve taking
pieces of something that was already created, and making it your own. Also, I
think the article is telling the audience that sometimes, if not most of the
time, when students plagiarize, they do not mean to do so and it was by
complete accident. In fact, the article hinted that students today pay more
attention to whether or not they are plagiarizing than to their actual writing
assignment, therefore their score affected tremendously. This concept of
originality that is talked about in the article also applies here.
Personally, I do
not think it is very hard to tell when someone is purposely plagiarizing or
not. Ideally, a person will find a piece of writing that might be similar to
whatever they are writing about and they will read it, transform it, and make
it their own and no plagiarizing exists. Similar ideas and yes some of it is
from the original text but not the entire paper. If you find a students essay
that is almost the same as the original text or the exact same thing, then plagiarizing
is in play. I think again that this concept of originality is key for both of
these cases and to give the student the benefit of the doubt.
Ryan McCormick
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