Synthesis - Blum & Howard
The academic population deals with the plagiarism and explaining its reasons. Both Suzn D. Blum, a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and Dr. Rebecca Moore Howard, have researched this subject and pointed out on the need to change the perception of the academic world considering plagiarism reasons.
Blum, argues in her essay on the Anthropology News, 2008, that the main cause to plagiarism, is the anthropological process; because there are not enough new ideas, the option to have several identities and the opportunities to collaborate information have increased, the “selecting creativity” (“incorporation of someone else’s text into one’s own”), has become the new originality.
Another phenomenon
that has a very similar effect to Blum’s “selecting creativity”, is the ‘patchwriting’ phenomenon. This, defined by Howard (CONNECT conference, 2009) as a ‘misuse of sources’, is a problem which mainly relate to the students’ use of the text words instead of coming up with their own. The ‘patchwriting’ mostly gushes from the struggle of non-expert writers to write without leaning too much on the text words and tend to happen when writer has a lack of knowledge on the text’s subject, or don’t have the tools to cope with the text (e.g. non-native speakers or even expert writers when writing out of their comfort zone). Both Blum and Howard claim that this two phenomenon are diverse from plagiarism and gushes from totally deferent reasons. They emphasise that academic society should understand it, distinguish between them, treat them in different ways than they treat plagiarism, and mainly, account it in the university policies.
“The plagiarists Tale” is an article about Quentin Rowan a man that went by the pen name Q. R. Markham. He wrote “assassin of secrets” a spy novel, after the publication of the novel James Bond fans found many similarities between the two. After further investigation results showed Quentin has plagiarized using many different novels as example. After word got out to the public the publishing company was infuriated and instantly took the novel off bookstore shelves. He said “I wish I could do it all over” he regretted everything he did. Quentin faced his consequences and is currently having a problem finding work.
In the book titled Around the World in 30 Years, Barbara Gallatin Anderson’s makes a precise and convincing argument regarding the acts of being a cultural anthropologist. Her humor, attention to detail, and familiar analogies really allow for a wholesome and educating experience for the reader. Her credible sources and uniform writing structure benefits the information. Simply, the book represents an insider’s look into the life of a cultural anthropologist who is getting the insider’s look to the lives of everybody
...different ideas and combining them to create a whole new concept is what originality truly is. Porter tries to say that plagiarizing is something hard if not impossible to avoid. In fact, no writer can consider a work as originally his/hers. That is because every writer needs to take into consideration other opinions that people have said and then form their own opinions. Therefore, English instructors should modify their conventional idea of originality and give students the opportunity to exercise their creativity and deeply analyze and interpret what they read. What Porter presents as intertextuality makes us reconsider what plagiarism is and recognize that taking other’s ideas is not necessarily as bad as we have been taught.
However, “There was some criticism of Neihardt for changes he made when writing Black Elk Speaks” (Silvio). In relation to journalism and anthropology, Neihardt resides as a journalist. The holistic study of culture is the basis of research. The anthropologist must be open to changes that are needed to learn the ways of the culture that they are studying.
In the essay “Rise of the Plagiosphere,” Ed Tenner argues that creative writing is dying due to online plagiarism detection programs, databases and text-comparison programs. Tenner first breaks down and defines the word Plagiosphere by defining it as a combination of the word plagiarism and sphere. Tenner then mentions how the idea of combining these words came from the creation of the word biosphere. Tenner then goes into discussing how different programs have been created to detect plagiarism such as web crawlers. He points out how these technical advances have caused for a writer’s profound phrasing to have a shortened life span. The writer may think he or she is stringing words together in a groundbreaking manner, but the reality is due
They show their view of plagiarism clearly in their documents through the use of terms such as “without hesitation” and “will not be tolerated” (Student code of conduct and discipline, 2015, p. 6; 9. Academic Honesty, n.d.). Many college students try to find out the ways how to avoid being accused of committing a serious academic offence as much as they can. Putting their own name on someone else’s works and getting good grades, some of them might succeed cleverly, but it is nothing but dishonesty. Both colleges warn students the consequences of plagiarism strongly, saying it can bring negative
Think of the term ‘globalization’. Your first thought may be of people from all corners of the Earth exchanging ideas, views, products, and so much more. Appiah introduces his article by describing a scene of a traditional Wednesday festival in the town of Kumasi. He allows the reader to visualize the traditions held by those in attendance, but begins his case by providing details of men on their cellphones and holding conversations on contemporary topics such as H.I.V/AIDS. When Appiah speaks of “contamination,” he highlights the way one culture is influenced by another accepting an exchange of ideas. In his article he asks, “why do people in these places sometimes feel that their identities are threatened?” (Appiah). This question raises a topic that is central to the unification of peoples’ ideals and cultures...
First, we must understand the history of plagiarism and the problem many instructors have in separating original thinking from collaborative thinking (that which is influenced by those who have come before). Western thought traces its roots to the great civilizations of Classical Greece and Rome. The nature of much writing from this period up into the 19th Century was ...
Other differences exist as well. The structures of the articles also display the authors’ personalities. Parallel to the attributes of their opinions, Ryan’s writing style and layout is clear and concise, while Rojas’ is much more fluid and casual. “Student Plagiarism” has well-divided sections and headings, making it easy to read and navigate through. Rojas’ article on the other hand lacks clear segments. While this makes for a more casual style, it may cause difficulty to
American Anthropological Association. (2009, February). Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association. Retrieved March 09, 2012, from American Anthropological Association: http://www.aaanet.org/issues/policy-advocacy/Code-of-Ethics.cfm
New York Times journalist, Trip Gabriel, puts into perspective students ability to use their creativity throughout their academic career in “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age.” This article discusses issues of plagiarism in the digital age, especially through college students. There are different perspectives from various people either attending college or professors that argue why plagiarism occurs. Whether it’s because of laziness, unpreparedness going into college, originality, or authorship not taken into consideration. Overall, this article infers the different standpoints of plagiarism, demonstrating the ease the digital age gives students to plagiarize, and the importance
...own its scholars. Plagiarism has become so widespread and tolerated, that it is almost too much work to eradicate. The result is sending a message to students that plagiarism is an issue of cleverness (who can avoid being caught) rather than morality. For this, I am saddened that higher standards of thought and morality are not enforced for the good of the scholar and society.
Writing can be a difficult task for some people. For those people, before they start writing, the first thing they do is probably idea gathering, maybe looking for relate article on newspaper or magazine, look up some definition in the dictionary, check the World Wide Web, or even take a trip to the library. Often, they found what they are looking for, and before they know it, they start copying it, maybe a couple of word, few sentence, other people¡¦s idea, or they even copy the whole thing. People often want to take things they like, it is part of human nature. But there are a big different between wanting to than actually taking it without permission, this kind of action is called plagiarism.
When a dominating or ‘more powerful’ culture steals elements from a minority, they have the ability to manipulate and mistreat it. By manifesting it as their own ideas about that culture, it can ‘erase’ and warp the originality of the minority or ‘less powerful’ culture.[3]
Plagiarism policies are in place to protect academic integrity. Students can plagiarize both intentionally and unintentionally, however the goal is to aim is to add to scholarly writing rather than avoiding academic penalty. Graduate level literacy skills take time and energy to acquire, but a well worth the effort, not only to avoid plagiarism, but also to promote academic excellence. Small but particle steps in education can produce graduate who are ready add to the filed of knowledge, not simply glean from