With this paper I was trying to say that all of the different things that are considered as plagiarism do not deserve the same punishments. I described the different things that are considered plagiarism and wrote why patchwriting and misusing citations should not receive the same punishments as copying and pasting someones work. I described how giving students another chance to fix things would help improve their writing. I mentioned how teachers jump right into punishing because of the policies that they have to follow and how the policies should be changed. I understand how people would argue that everyone deserves credit for their work and acknowledged what others might say. I think that my idea is working well and I have good points. I know my paper is missing something and needs to be longer so if you have any suggestion for when needs to be added or talked about more that would help me a lot. If i had more time I would have probably read through a lot more articles.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/83850902/Plagiarism-and-Punishment
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Intro
We all know what plagiarism is. Recently there has been a lot of different conversations going on about what fits into the category of plagiarism. Teachers are frequently accusing students of plagiarizing and punish it harshly. Should all of the different things that people put into the category receive the same punishment? Wether students are intentionally plagiarizing or not they will still receive the same levels of punishment. But should students be punished for things that they never learned from their teachers?
to be continued.........
to be continued.........
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
FEbruary 27th homework
Summary
In their article"Reading and Writing without Authority," Ann M. Penrose and Cheryl Geisler argue that younger students don't write with authority and older people do because they need to gain more knowledge. They did a study on two people, a freshmen english student and a philosophy doctorate student. Both people wrote about the same topic, paternity and then the two papers were looked at to see who wrote with more authority. In the end the conclusion was that as people get older they did write with more authority.
QD:
3. Janet most likely had to use a lot of different sources to get information for the paper because she was just a freshmen and didn't have as much knowledge about the subject of the paper. Rodger being a older student and more educated probably did not have to do as much research about the subject as Janet would need to do.
4. Me being a freshman student I know that when I am doing research for a paper I believe what most of the information that I read when doing research says so I would guess that is the same case with Janet when writing her paper. Most freshmen students would rather trust what research is saying rather than make up their own things to say.
5. I know that my writing is more like Janets because I am also a freshmen and do not have much information on the things that I write about. I hold more of a information-transfer model of knowledge and do a lot of researching before I write my paper to get ideas of what to say and learn about the topic.
MM
This should help me next time I go to write a paper because of my writing style and the amount of confidence I have in my writing. Knowing that I need to have more confidence in order to make my papers better is something that I will try to do in order to improve my writing.
Reflection
This article was interesting to see Janets and Rodgers writing compared and the outcomes that the researchers came up with. This compares to my own experiences because I can relate to the way the Janet writes. I agree with the conclusion that the researchers came up with because it makes sense that the older more educated person would have more background and produce more information.
In their article"Reading and Writing without Authority," Ann M. Penrose and Cheryl Geisler argue that younger students don't write with authority and older people do because they need to gain more knowledge. They did a study on two people, a freshmen english student and a philosophy doctorate student. Both people wrote about the same topic, paternity and then the two papers were looked at to see who wrote with more authority. In the end the conclusion was that as people get older they did write with more authority.
QD:
3. Janet most likely had to use a lot of different sources to get information for the paper because she was just a freshmen and didn't have as much knowledge about the subject of the paper. Rodger being a older student and more educated probably did not have to do as much research about the subject as Janet would need to do.
4. Me being a freshman student I know that when I am doing research for a paper I believe what most of the information that I read when doing research says so I would guess that is the same case with Janet when writing her paper. Most freshmen students would rather trust what research is saying rather than make up their own things to say.
5. I know that my writing is more like Janets because I am also a freshmen and do not have much information on the things that I write about. I hold more of a information-transfer model of knowledge and do a lot of researching before I write my paper to get ideas of what to say and learn about the topic.
MM
This should help me next time I go to write a paper because of my writing style and the amount of confidence I have in my writing. Knowing that I need to have more confidence in order to make my papers better is something that I will try to do in order to improve my writing.
Reflection
This article was interesting to see Janets and Rodgers writing compared and the outcomes that the researchers came up with. This compares to my own experiences because I can relate to the way the Janet writes. I agree with the conclusion that the researchers came up with because it makes sense that the older more educated person would have more background and produce more information.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Febuary 24th homework
Summary
In her article "Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces," Elizabeth Wardle argues that the issues of identity and authority aren't thought of when writing people are writing in a new workplace. She talks in detail about identity and authority and how they effect us when writing in a work place. She then goes into telling a story step by step about a man named Alan learning to write in a new work place.
QD
3. I think that the conflicts did not have positive results because Alan did not want to change the way that he did things before because that was not how he saw himself. He could have compromised and changed some things and not completely disregard what was being asked of him.
4. I agree with this statement because I don't think that people are not always making conscious choices I know that I am not and that I just say what I am thinking and I think that is how most other people would be too.
5.I agree with Wardle because I think that if he really wanted to be part of the discourse it definitely would have been possible for him to make the changes asked of him and he could have worked at becoming a part of it.
6. I don't think that he was being used as a tool because he could have been more of a member if he wanted to be.
7.I can think of one time when I got a new cheerleading coach and she was trying to change the way that we were use to doing things and we just become kind of our own coaches and lead eachother.
MM
I think that authority is discussed so much because it is something that is important to have when you are trying to be a successful writer.Thinking about sources of authority help you as a writer because it helps you to understand where you stand in what you are trying to say.
Reflection
I thought this article was interesting because it was the first time I read a article like this one. I agree with a lot of the things that Wardle says in this article. I think this will be useful to me when I am writing for my college classes.
In her article "Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces," Elizabeth Wardle argues that the issues of identity and authority aren't thought of when writing people are writing in a new workplace. She talks in detail about identity and authority and how they effect us when writing in a work place. She then goes into telling a story step by step about a man named Alan learning to write in a new work place.
QD
3. I think that the conflicts did not have positive results because Alan did not want to change the way that he did things before because that was not how he saw himself. He could have compromised and changed some things and not completely disregard what was being asked of him.
4. I agree with this statement because I don't think that people are not always making conscious choices I know that I am not and that I just say what I am thinking and I think that is how most other people would be too.
5.I agree with Wardle because I think that if he really wanted to be part of the discourse it definitely would have been possible for him to make the changes asked of him and he could have worked at becoming a part of it.
6. I don't think that he was being used as a tool because he could have been more of a member if he wanted to be.
7.I can think of one time when I got a new cheerleading coach and she was trying to change the way that we were use to doing things and we just become kind of our own coaches and lead eachother.
MM
I think that authority is discussed so much because it is something that is important to have when you are trying to be a successful writer.Thinking about sources of authority help you as a writer because it helps you to understand where you stand in what you are trying to say.
Reflection
I thought this article was interesting because it was the first time I read a article like this one. I agree with a lot of the things that Wardle says in this article. I think this will be useful to me when I am writing for my college classes.
Paper 3 Cover Letter
On our website, The Values of Literacy in the World Today we are telling our readers how much they should value the opportunity to learn to read and write. We argue that people take for granite the ability to be literate because for most people it is a way of life and they don't realize not everyone has the privilege to learn these skills. We talk about how the basis of learning starts out with reading and writing and without it we couldn't learn anything. Examples we use are that people from earlier centuries did not have the privileges that we do and either do people in other countries. We also share our own personal stories of what we remember of becoming literate. Another thing we did was ask some old english teachers their opinions on the values of literacy and literacy sponsors (some haven't responded yet). I think we did a good job of making the sections clear and easy to find what they want to read. We only had two peer reviews and they told us to proof read it more and fix errors that we missed and we did that, also they told us to add to our intro and our interview page so we did both of those things. Another thing they mentioned for us to to was to add some sources that we forgot.
http://valueofliteracy.webs.com/
http://valueofliteracy.webs.com/
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
February 22nd homework
Summary
In her writing "Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice," Ann Johns talks about "communities of practice" and how they are similar to discourse communities. She discuses different nonacademic communities in order to help the readers understand before she talks about being a member of a academic communities. She argues that being a part of a discourse community has complications because of many different things that she outlines in the writing.
QD
1. The first thing is cost, people need to make major trade-offs when wanting to fit into a discourse community. The next thing she said was Issues of Authority, people may believe the community should be equal and not agree with the the people above them. Third she discusses Conventions and Anticonventionalism, this is a issue because changing things or doing them different can been seen as a problem and as breaking the rules. The last one is Dialogue and Critique, disagreements among member is the problem.
2. As you are getting older your life changes in many ways and eventually it is completely different and you view things in a different way. I do not know any historical examples that I could use for this but i could think of after taken certain classes in school your views on certain things can change once you learn more about them.
3. No, I do not believe that learning to write in a new discourse community effected any of these things for me, I think this hasn't happened because the only thing that has happened in a new discourse for me is that I learned to improve what I had already known.
4. The only thing that I believe that these things change they way you see certain things. I don't think it changed who a person is I think it might just help them improve their self and knowledge.
5. This is really the first class that I have had to write papers for so far in college and I think that the writing have challenged me to go outside of the norm for me so I don't see myself having much authority.
6. This is considered a "minefeild" because most of the time when you are breaking rules you don't know the result that you are going to get in the end. It could go either way a teacher may like that you changed things around and another teacher may be mad at you for this and not give you credit. I personally have never been punished because I have never really done this.
MM
This can help because I now knowing the different things that she talked about can help me to know if I can successfully be a part of a discourse community.
Reflection
I thought the things that she talked about were interesting because she had a lot of good supported things to say. This will be helpful to me if I plan to become part of a new discourse community. I agree with the things that she says in this because she has good examples and reasons for each.
In her writing "Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice," Ann Johns talks about "communities of practice" and how they are similar to discourse communities. She discuses different nonacademic communities in order to help the readers understand before she talks about being a member of a academic communities. She argues that being a part of a discourse community has complications because of many different things that she outlines in the writing.
QD
1. The first thing is cost, people need to make major trade-offs when wanting to fit into a discourse community. The next thing she said was Issues of Authority, people may believe the community should be equal and not agree with the the people above them. Third she discusses Conventions and Anticonventionalism, this is a issue because changing things or doing them different can been seen as a problem and as breaking the rules. The last one is Dialogue and Critique, disagreements among member is the problem.
2. As you are getting older your life changes in many ways and eventually it is completely different and you view things in a different way. I do not know any historical examples that I could use for this but i could think of after taken certain classes in school your views on certain things can change once you learn more about them.
3. No, I do not believe that learning to write in a new discourse community effected any of these things for me, I think this hasn't happened because the only thing that has happened in a new discourse for me is that I learned to improve what I had already known.
4. The only thing that I believe that these things change they way you see certain things. I don't think it changed who a person is I think it might just help them improve their self and knowledge.
5. This is really the first class that I have had to write papers for so far in college and I think that the writing have challenged me to go outside of the norm for me so I don't see myself having much authority.
6. This is considered a "minefeild" because most of the time when you are breaking rules you don't know the result that you are going to get in the end. It could go either way a teacher may like that you changed things around and another teacher may be mad at you for this and not give you credit. I personally have never been punished because I have never really done this.
MM
This can help because I now knowing the different things that she talked about can help me to know if I can successfully be a part of a discourse community.
Reflection
I thought the things that she talked about were interesting because she had a lot of good supported things to say. This will be helpful to me if I plan to become part of a new discourse community. I agree with the things that she says in this because she has good examples and reasons for each.
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