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Clax discovered 16 months ago- From the page: "Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master" Drawing from a common well. You can be original only against an established background - you can stand out from this either by mastering it or through a flash of insight - or you can turn it all around - one way or another you don't do it in a vacuum. See the heading 'undiscovered public knowledge'
- redwallhp rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "If I were to tell you that pirating DVDs or downloading music is in no way different from loaning a friend a book, my own arguments would be as ethically bankrupt as the MPAA's."
- Wires rated 15 months ago
- Harper's Magazine: The Ecstasy of Influence February 2007 Jonathan Lethem The "cut-up method ... interrogating the universe with scissors and a paste pot." Plagiarism is a practice of productive perpetuation and poisonous pilferage, the coexistence of two antipodes permissible by circumstance and objective. The appropriation of one's composition into your composition receives aggressive condemnation in academic institutions but is exercised frequently in literary publications, societally acceptable if the reproduction deviates in style. First, we must examine where you furnish and where you can simply redecorate. Scientifically, new revelations warrant more congratulation because once a question mark, now an exclamation mark. Literarily, creations and enhancements do not differentiate in reception because both enrich; applaudable creations achieves enrichment and an applaudable enhancement achieves enrichment by reformation of a less triumphant creation. If authors copy to rewrite better, as Shakespeare, as Nabokov, this activity is akin to sharpening the diameter of a needle to empower its puncture. If authors copy to ride the reverberations of another ripple, as Viswanathan, this activity is akin to bagging prosperity for personal profitability. Not to be underscored, this world is mechanized forward by continuous conception and reconstruction, typewriters to the keyboard, horses to automobiles and a constituent of it, the compositional sphere, is too propelled by these principles. The adjective 'better' is only relative to a lesser precedent thus it is not a final destination but the attainment of it is an unending progression. Borrowing text in this regard is essentially like building on text, the attractive addition of the another brushstroke atop the application of first brushstroke for entertainment and enlightenment. Academically, a composition is strictly for evaluation of individual capabilities. Your ability to originate thought is judged to allot your skills to a compatible position later in life. When a student plagiarizes, it no longer is a determination of he/she can do, but what another has already done. Quotations and paraphrasing however is allowable with credit but only to strengthen a notion, not supply it. To see how plagiarism can then be positive and negative simultaneously is a simple separation of motivation. If you copy to substitute your output, this is negative. If you copy to decorate a previous output, this is constructive.
- interlocutor01 rated 16 months ago
- From one of my favorite authors. Worth reading to get a writer's opinion of plagiarism and creativity.
