Article Response Six: Plagiarism

 In todays day and age, writing a research paper is all to easy. We type our topic into Google and look t the first three results that come up and there we go. Our paper is done. Sometimes it is hard to re word information you find on the internet and copying and pasting is such an easier alternative. And we all know it's wrong but who is going to know? I have never had a teacher (until now) who actually checked to see if our papers were copied from an online source. I know there are people out there who think "Hey, If I take this paragraph from a website online, change two words and site it, Im okay." But that is not okay. It's lying. You are taking credit for something you didnt do. I know I wouldnt like to have someone else say they wrote my paper when they only copied and pasted it. Plagiarism is not really focused on in school, they tell you it is wrong and move on. As said in the article,

"It is a disconnect that is growing in the Internet age as concepts of intellectual property, copyright and originality are under assault in the unbridled exchange of online information, say educators who study plagiarism."

 It is all to easy for a student to take words from a page online and use them as their own even though they should not. I know plagiarism is wrong and allthough when I do write a paper, some words from the article get thrown into it, I know that I cannot take a whole sentence or article and use it as my own.

Multigenre Example Response

One of the multigenre posts that really stuck out ot me was the one titled: From The Voice Within. This was a multigenre project on the book "Speak." It is mostly centered on Rape. This one was just really interesting and sad! The project is mostly made up of poems. I think the poems are the transistional pieces because they are all done in the same form. There is a piece entitled "RAPE" and It is done in an expository/ research paper way. It is deffinatly the one that she used a lot of research on. It uses facts about statistics about rape and how often it happens. There are some journal entries and notes to people that the author used her creative license on. The transitions are effective I think because they go through the emotions that someone who is a victim of rape would go though like anger. I certianly learned new information about the statistics of sexual assult like that someone is raped every two and a half minutes in the USA. The formating is different because the poems are on pictures... I dont think that made since. But the poems have images behind them. I liked the idea of using poems as transistional pieces. Overall, I really enjoyed this project and I was trying to skim it and ended up reading every line and word. I loved how passionate she was about it and I plan on reading this book now.

Article Response Five

*The Secret to Being Memorable and Persuasived

Joe Romms article "The Secrets of Being Memorable and Persuasive" is about how you should speak or write if you wish to be remembered. You have to have launguage intelligence. I agree with Joe. We all have those songs that get stuck in our heads and we can't get them out! I know that his example of "Call Me Maybe" was stuck in my head for months. A catchy tune with alliteration or a rhyming metaphore can become engraved in our brains so easily.

" Last summer’s monster hit “Call me maybe” has one of the cleverest, hardest-to-get-out-of-your-head hooks you can squeeze into three words, “Call me maybe.”  The words “me” and “maybe” have both rhyme and alliteration."

I really liked this article because it useed examples that I knew and could relate to, such as "Call Me Maybe." I thought the intro was funny when Shakespeare and Lady GaGa were compared. Two people so different, and from wildly different times are being compared! I thought that was hilarious. I think this information might be helpful next time I'm trying to write a poem or a catchy pop song. I think that this is a good skill to have. To be able to talk to a crowd and have them have a line of your speech caught in your head for weeks would be amazing. I liked this article. It was interesting.