Xiang
Wang Sho
WRT101
17/9/2013
According to the article, the reader can
realize that there are some of the problems in both Amanda and her teacher.
First of all, grading paper by using program is a very good idea, but the
teacher should clearly have the sense of program is just a program. It can
never instead a real person. Basically it is just a tool which can assist the
grader. From the Amanda side, she did some mistakes, but from all of her
actions, people should notice that she did not mean to plagiarize. She did
explain but teacher has already relied on the Turnitin and then give his
thought. It is not fair for Amanda. If the teacher notices she fails to do the
internal citation but still has the corrected work cited page, the teacher may
not see her work as plagiarism but just a mistake. Teacher should know Turnitin
is not a perfect tool. The work such like writing doesn’t have a specific criterion.
The idea or the point should felt by a real person not a program.
On the other hand, Amanda is obviously a victim
of the modern technology. Her incident had been posted on internet which is not
removable. The people who are not familiar with the situation can make malice
comment on her or have some negative thought on her without knowing her. Her privacy
is also being infringed. People will see the word plagiarism frequently associated
with her. And actually it will remain forever which is a very great harm, and
it was just caused by a small “mistake”. Some people take it very seriously,
and it can affect her career in the future or more than that.
Anyway, in my opinion, studying from
other is always a good way to improved oneself. The line for learning from
other person is plagiarism or not is a actually a gray zone. Same as copy rights, using
something old music to make some new remixed music is a good example. The new piece
definitely sounds different but they are all made from the other music. It is
hard to judge the how original the new music is.
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