Survey

1.The group activities helped me learn more. The least would be most of the readings because they were so long, similar and had hard words in them to read. Core 3 helped me the most. The one that helped me the least would be core 1.

2.The text that helped me the most was the Devoss essay. The discussion helped the most because the texts were hard to read. Half the discussions you went off on a tangent so it confused me sometimes. The teachers usually just have discussions and they normally helps me understand.

3.I did not like how scatttered brained you were and how late you put stuff up on your blog. Most of the time you helped.You took a little too long sometimes to reply back to emails. Yes, i was able to fix my papers from what you told me.

CARS

Move 1-Establishing a territory: Recently I’ve began to notice that there is not any originality in movies anymore. It seems that every movie coming out nowadays is a remake, an adaptation or just a rehashed idea that did not go over well the first time.

Move 2-Establishing a niche: Not many people understand what constitutes as Digital Plagiarism in script writing. So What exactly constitutes as plagiarism in the entertainment industry and what is the Internet’s role in providing ideas as well as making scripts more available to filmmakers and the public?

Move 3-Occupying the niche: The purpose of this essay is about Digital Plagiarism in script writing. By the end of my essay the reader will know who is concerned by this problem and what people are doing to prevent it. I will start off explaining the topic and then go into each individual who would be concerned with the problem and have qoutations from articles. I will also put in a few interview quotes that I have.

Thursday Assignment

My research for Core 4 is an argument of definition and fact. It is both because I am using research from people’s personal opinion and also from straight up facts and numbers. In the Lundsford book, it talks about how factual arguments need hard facts and visuals, while in an argument of definition it is more about who has the passion to argue for it. The book also states that in an argument of definition it is also about people’s opinions and how they start with a claim. In The article by John M. Barrie, he talks about how “25 million users of the World Wide Web”. He uses other statistics when talking about how many people use “Cheater.com claims to have over 30,000 members and adds approximately 100 new essays to its database each week". In the article by UNK, they give the definition to what copyrighting is and what is protected by it. However, in my other articles such as by Poynder and York, they use personal opinions. In the Poynder article it talks about "Aleksandar Skocajic, a Belgrade, Serbia-based mechanic with Telekom Serbia, for the last 8 years, believes that Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, and Walt Disney's Touchstone Pictures all acquired plagiarized versions of "Magma Town" ("Volcano of Death"), a screenplay he wrote in 1994". In the York article, he talks about if the script is not copyrighted it is fair game. Moreover, by having these two sides to the argument I think it will help make my Core 4 better well rounded.

Reflection on research

The conversation between all the authors basically agree with that plagiarism is in script writing. All except one author who disagrees saying that it is fair game. The problem I see with this research is that not a lot of people write about plagiarism in script writing and if they do, they are against it. So it is hard to get both sides of the story.