Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s concept of assemblage relates to remixing materials. In an assemblage, they talk about how students should be combining pieces of other people’s work that they find and state that they did, rather than try to hide that they took information from other sources and played it off as their own. Assemblage, as described in the article, is “constructed from the conceptual, linguistic, and sociopolitical forces active in several different locations” (Johnson-Eilola). This is basically a remix because it involves taking previous ideas of others and combining/changing them to create something new. Plagiarism isn't always a bad thing to do. Sometimes when it is done, it is okay. They gave an example about how teachers plagiarized other people in the syllabi of their classes. Small things like that are okay, however copying full papers is not. That is why assembling and remixing is good, because it allows students to give their ideas and views on ideas that are already there, rather than find something online and try to play it off as their own. It can be said that there is no specific line between plagiarism and originality, primarily because there are many different situations of what is considered plagiarism and what is not. An idea, taken from the article, would be to let the students use someone’s work in order to solve a problem or issue, rather than create a whole new piece trying to come up with an issue and then explaining why it is an issue or problem. It is better to write about something and come to a conclusion rather than come up with something and state why it is there rather than analyze it.
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