Porter
Lisa McClain
9/16
Before you read
-When I need “help” in writing, as in ideas and I can’t
think of anything ill stop for a wile to take a break, then after that I go
back and try writing again from that point.
QD
-I thought that writing was more or less your thoughts down
on paper. My own work in the past was more that a friend or relative would look
over it for me.
-His work by in his view was “original” because he purposely
used others own writings in his own paper.
Applying and exploring ideas
-Plagiarism is where you’ve clearly looked for information
on purpose and happens about three times in one paper and it’s clearly
plagiarism, as in exact text or a few switched words. This is the same to
prevent cheating but not suspect then of doing when they didn’t mean to.
Meta Moment
-It has changed my point on writers and writing some because
I never really thought about how some writing will be reused on accident. Kind
of like how Green pointed out all arguments happen before we were there, same
goes for writing we weren’t the first to come up with that amazing line or awesome
point, so in some aspect that means were all plagiarizing. It changes my view
on writing by now I’m going think how there were people before me that have tried
to prove the same point.
Good, you nicely capture the paradox in which Porter is very much interested. How can we write something original if all writing is informed by the ideas of others? Who is Porter addressing his argument to? If we are all plagiarizing, what does that imply about how we deal with "plagiarizing" in the classroom?
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