Within Johnson-Eilola and
Selber’s article, the concept of remix was scattered throughout in a sense to
emphasize the difference between remixing and plagiarism. What I retrieved from
the article was that there needs to be less pressure on students for using work
from other but instead there should be appraisal on the fact that a student is
able to take someone else’s work and utilize it alongside original work to
create what would be considered a remix. Their concept of assemblage is what I
consider to be a remix, both meaning include the idea of putting items together
in order to create a revision of an “original”. A perfect example would be the
mention of teachers using different sites and sources in conjunction with their
original words/ text to provide students with what they see to be the best
teaching tools. The line between plagiarism and originality could be drawn when
the work in question is not something the “creator” can freely explain without
any resources at hand. To simply modify a piece with a few changes does not
make it one of originality. Plagiarism is to claim anything that isn’t yours
simply for the purpose of not the ability to create your own idea on an idea.
My only confusion came from the ordering of the sections. Also in comparison to
the length of the article I expected more subtitles but there was not many so
occasionally the idea behind the paragraph I would be reading was lost.
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