Blog Post 3

The concept of a remix is sometimes defined as taking something that has already been created and changing it in some sort of way whether it’s adding or taking away. In this reading the concept of assemblage is the idea of putting many different things that have already been created into one medium for the purpose of making it more efficient or to state a specific point/thesis if it has to do with a paper. Both an assemblage and a remix deal with the usage of something that has already been made and using this recreation to express the individuals thoughts on what they feel should be included in this mixing of ideas.

            In this reading the authors show two different perspectives on plagiarism and originality. The first has to do with these concepts in an educational setting and the second in a more legal aspect. These authors state that the purpose of identifying citations in an educational setting is so that students can understand that claiming someone else’s thoughts as their own is wrong and make it easier for teachers to grade on the basis of “original” work. The authors also claim that since nothing is really original teachers should make an effort to give assignments based on assemblages, which show the coming together of thoughts, and is essentially more “original” to the students thinking. In this perspective intention draws the line between plagiarism and originality. The intent to put together points for a central idea is originality and the blatant use of someone’s thoughts as their own is plagiarism. The same goes for the legal aspect of plagiarism and originality. The perspective of the intent is what matters.