In Edward Tenners article, "The Rise of the Plagiosphere," I was confronted with the question of originality in my own writing. I feel as if someone in the world could be thinking something very similar to me after reading this article, and posting a similar response in any type of document. Is this plagiarism? It says that the new programs will be able to detect when the document as a whole can detect non verbatim plagiarism. I feel that plagiarism is wrong and copying another persons work is wrong, however, I feel that someone could be wrongfully accused after just merely having the same thoughts. Will a device be made someday that records our thoughts and then we will be punished for having the same? What if someone subconsciously wrote something that they thought was their own work, when years before they read something similar. Are mistakes allowed?
Monday, January 18, 2010
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I agree that plagiarism is wrong and yet there are exceptions to those who are accused of committing it- if and only if their ideas are articulated using different wording. Ideas, no matter how trivial or common, should never be found in verbatim to others recorded before. Our sentences are novel and have never been written or uttered before in the exact same way, usually... Which is why your position is interesting because WHAT IF someone had the exact same idea VERBATIM by freak chance, how would we treat this, is it possible?
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