Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Discussing Others' Works of Others
I thought the class discussion on our plagiarism papers was one of the most interesting we have had. I was intrigued by the variety of ways people went about plagiarizing--especially when Jenny said she wrote a legitimate paper and then turned it into plagiarism. That is not common. I figured most people would do it the way I chose to do it. It turns out that my way of copying the whole document and then altering it in certain places of obvious suspicion was quite unique. It will be interesting to see the results from our collective investigations.
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i think your choice to plagiarize a short story was a brilliant one. when i think of plagiarism, i generally think of academic papers. i would say that a short story would be much more difficult to detect plagiarism than other papers since there is a lot less information on it as well as less of a chance that it is duplicated in many places.
I had been thinking of taking a full document and inserting my own examples as well. I had been considering an essay, however, which would have more than likely been considerably different from your short story. I would say depending on how you did it you might have considerable deniability with creative writing; since nothing can be written except what we have experience with I wouldn't think a rewording type of plagiarism could be easily proven (unless conventions, etc. followed too closely to the original).
Talking from my own experience with this assignment, one way to catch a paper plagiarized with heavy or light paraphrasing is to check the flow of ideas and reasoning against that of the suspected source. For example, I could not easily change the order of the presentation of ideas in my paper, only their wording. Comparing my paper with my sole source reveals a ridiculous similarity in the order in which the concepts are presented. If you had changed most of the words from that story, do you think the plot would be similar enough to arouse suspicion?
Certainly the plot would remain similar. The only problem is that the source would have to either be a familiar one, or discovered--a nearly impossible task to accomplish. I stole my work from an 1865 Harper's Magazine.
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