Blog Post 3

1. Assemblage: noun
   a collection or gathering of things or people. 
   Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s idea of mixing different articles with ones own touch. Quite
   closely related to our idea of a "remix", Assemblages were a huge point in this article. Beginning with the problems behind modern revision of compositions, it is clearly seen that a standpoint towards rejecting common ideas of plagiarism is shown. However, as this article states ideas of all three continually change throughout time. Plagiarism remains the unauthorized use of any written work in ones composition without recognition towards the initial author. The problem stated to be common in modern era is the fact that teachers encourage citations which in turn leads to the work of the student being undermined. Originality comes into play when there is little regard towards outside sources to create ones work. This means that any student is more likely to produce a more original work with their own ideas if they do not have a requirement for other work inclusion.
   Where does assemblage become plagiarism?There are many ways to create an original work with influence from sources and society. A mashup, so to speak, of many works could contribute to the general idea a student is trying to cover. However, when these outside sources continuously are present and without original written word coming from the student there is a change to plagiarism where no originality is shown and works are just used to get a good grade. Another key term presented in this passage was that said by Rebecca Moore Howard, which is Patchwriting. A strategy that can be called "paraphrasing", patchwriting takes a passages and changes almost every single grammatical point of you to make it new but a similar copy to the old. Many new ways are always arising on how to create plagiarism. I believe it is up to teachers and professors to instill a sense of wanting to become a better writer in every student.