Essay on Article Uw Students, Faculty Struggle with Plagiarism in Internet Era
Essay on "UW students, faculty struggle with plagiarism in Internet era"
"Welcome to the sometimes confounding topic of plagiarism in the cut-and-paste Internet era."[1]. This is an example on how Todd Finkelmeyer engages the reader in his article "UW students, faculty struggle with plagiarism in Internet era". However, this quote also underlines the issue Todd Finkelmeyer deals with throughout his article, which is one of the challenges associated with living in a time, where various kinds of information is shared among whomever online on the Internet; the challenge of plagiarism. In the following, I will analyse and comment on the article, and as a part of my essay, I will focus on how Todd Finkelmeyer engages the reader and what the consequences of plagiarism might be.
In his article, Todd Finkelmeyer, the reporter, ensures to involve his reader by using different kinds of appeal forms and features. He asks questions like "So why do they do it?"[2] and "Others argued that since the assignment was a group project, and since they didn't write the part of the report in question, how could she punish them for any wrongdoing?"[3] in order to address and make the reader wonder, which increases the closeness between the reader and the article. Thereby, the reporter leaves the reader with a question and he makes sure that he/she reads on in search of an answer. Todd Finkelmeyer also uses appeal forms when he engages the reader, and this is seen from the way he strengthens the his ethos. This is done by including several quotes from students and mostly from professionals whose work is related to or affected by the matter of plagiarism, such as Donald McCabe[4], professor at Rutgers University and co-founder of the International Center for Academic Integrity, or Donald Downs[5], longtime political science professor at the Washington University. By integrating the statements of these specialists and students, such as when UW chemistry lecturer Jeanine Batterton
"Welcome to the sometimes confounding topic of plagiarism in the cut-and-paste Internet era."[1]. This is an example on how Todd Finkelmeyer engages the reader in his article "UW students, faculty struggle with plagiarism in Internet era". However, this quote also underlines the issue Todd Finkelmeyer deals with throughout his article, which is one of the challenges associated with living in a time, where various kinds of information is shared among whomever online on the Internet; the challenge of plagiarism. In the following, I will analyse and comment on the article, and as a part of my essay, I will focus on how Todd Finkelmeyer engages the reader and what the consequences of plagiarism might be.
In his article, Todd Finkelmeyer, the reporter, ensures to involve his reader by using different kinds of appeal forms and features. He asks questions like "So why do they do it?"[2] and "Others argued that since the assignment was a group project, and since they didn't write the part of the report in question, how could she punish them for any wrongdoing?"[3] in order to address and make the reader wonder, which increases the closeness between the reader and the article. Thereby, the reporter leaves the reader with a question and he makes sure that he/she reads on in search of an answer. Todd Finkelmeyer also uses appeal forms when he engages the reader, and this is seen from the way he strengthens the his ethos. This is done by including several quotes from students and mostly from professionals whose work is related to or affected by the matter of plagiarism, such as Donald McCabe[4], professor at Rutgers University and co-founder of the International Center for Academic Integrity, or Donald Downs[5], longtime political science professor at the Washington University. By integrating the statements of these specialists and students, such as when UW chemistry lecturer Jeanine Batterton