R e v i e w theorizing plagiarism in the university. So they could gather information and came out their own ideas. Plagiarists, authors, collaborators, gives a definite no for an answer. Rebecca moore howards research works syracuse university. Patchwriting is a method where students use simple deletions and word for word substitutions in order to make the original writers words their own. Reviewed by joel bloch, the ohio state university, november 30, 2001. Jessa wood, ted roggenbuck, peter doerschler, megan hicks.
There are a lot of debates around the usefulness of patchwriting, and weve drawn our argument from scholars and researchers who see it as a potentially productive step in your writing process. Writing from sources, writing from sentences rebecca moore howard, tricia serviss, and tanya k. Urban fashion trends english english language england. The first example of patchwriting from bartosiewicz is of a paragraph where. Rebecca moore howard 1993 defined patchwriting as copying from a source text and then deleting some words, altering grammatical structures, or plugging in oneforone synonym substitutes. Active learning activities college of arts, humanities. Exercise in patchwriting christopher leary rebecca moore howard defines patchwriting as a method of composing in which writers take the words of other authors and patch them together with few or no changes 233. Aug 29, 2011 project information literacy, patchwriting, wikipedia etc. For more about their findings from an analysis of 18 student papers, see rebecca moore howard, tricia c.
For example, we believe that students need instruction in methods of deep engagement with sources, talking with and about a source rather than merely mining sentences from it. In fact, you can easily notice how pastel colors, which were famous back in the sixties are coming back to life, and not just in clothes fashion, but in interior design as well. Taken together, academic writing and plagiarism, my word. Begin your essay with a short introduction that explains the three kinds of plagiarism that howard discusses. This type of plagiarism does not always result from dishonesty.
Patchwriting means restating a phrase, clause, or one or more sentences while staying. For a number of years now, howard has been arguing that we need to rethink the criminalization of the type of plagiarism involving copying pieces of texts. Howard describe patchwriting at a conference on writing integrity earlier this year at poynter. She gives an example of a class she taught at colgate university by telling a story about when her. The origin seems to be in rebecca moore howard, a plagiarism. Nov 25, 2014 in the 19th century helsinki was considered the leading example of empirestyle architecture in all of northern europe. The author of a plagiarism pentimento is rebecca moore howard. Moreover, howard argues that patchwriting can be viewed as the natural outcome of the process of collaborative writing.
Rebecca moore howards 17 research works with 539 citations and 6,282 reads, including. Plagiarism prevention handout howe center for writing. They also agreed that too much similarity might indicate what rebecca moore howard calls patchwriting or perhaps a more nefarious textborrowing strategy. In a brief essay, use the concepts from howards discussion above to explain whether the three examples below do or do not contain plagiarism. As i understand it, rebecca moore howard would prefer that we dropped the notion of plagiarism from our vocabularies for talking about academic writing. Rebecca moore howard, an assistant professor in the department of interdisciplinary. Moreover, howard argues that patchwriting can be viewed as the natural. Jul 20, 2015 rebecca moore howard has shown that patchwritingweaving the language of one or more source texts into ones own text without adequately citing the sourcesis a common form of developmental plagiarism. Patchwriting is the term writing researcher rebecca moore howard 1993 uses to describe the incomplete paraphrase strategy that writers just emerging in a field often find themselves using to make it seem as if they are more knowledgeable than they are. Rebecca howards new book, standing in the shadow of giants. Quotations, for example, might be reported as matching text, but a wellintegrated quote is a strength of student writing rather than a weakness. Just such a term was coined by writing professor rebecca moore howard.
Her most forceful argument appears to be a 2000 piece in college english, in which she says. Clearly, patchwriting is a form of paraphrasing plagiarism. Active learning activities college of arts, humanities and. The population of finland has been about 5 million for the past several decades. Students then compare this policy to the policy rebecca moore howard provides in her article plagiarisms, authorships, and the academic death penalty the pairs of students will then move into groups of 4 2 pairs of 2 and discuss the main differences between the two policies. Rebecca moore howard two different acts are considered plagiarism. A handbook for writing and research comprehensive edition with exercises rebecca moore howard. Sandra jamieson and rebecca moore howard smart talk. I originally had a kneejerk response to this book, and still loathe cut and paste stealing with a passion, but moore makes a convincing case that accusations of plagiarism towards some students is a gatekeeping response to writers often the great unwashed, women and people of color who do not yet know how to express themselves in an accepted way, and that the lone, unteachable genius. Although associated with plagiarism, it is an extremely useful writing strategy with a very. Rebecca moore howard coined the term patchwriting to describe how novice writers in a discipline may incorporate bits and pieces of verbatim source text into their own writing, not to be deliberately deceptive, but because those writers do not understand their sources well enough to paraphrase them adequately. In the following example, the source text the original text, emphasis.
Plagiarisms, authorships, and the academic death penalty jstor. Nov 20, 20 and such situations are increasingly common. Good research habits, like the ones described in this document, can help guard against unintentional plagiarism. Actually, the term patchwriting was coined by professor rebecca moore howard at syracuse university, who sees this often used as a way for writers to learn the language of a new genre or subject, lu says. Childrens early speech consists mostly of lexical or open class words. Students are not selecting authoritative, meaningful sources and not reading them. Plagiarism technology issues washington state university. Mar 27, 2011 reading rebecca moore howards article caused me to rethink my own ideas about plagiarism a bit, i must admit. Oct 10, 2016 patchwriting is the term writing researcher rebecca moore howard 1993 uses to describe the incomplete paraphrase strategy that writers just emerging in a field often find themselves using to make it seem as if they are more knowledgeable than they are.
Patchwriting is more common than plagiarism, just as. Next the author gave some information about patchwriting and plagiarism by using rebecca moore howard ans an example. Every blog, including rebecca moore howard s noticed that the old, vintage fashion is finding a way back into the modern european fashion trends and on the fashion shows. Apr 11, 2011 the findings are not happy news for how writing is taught, rebecca moore howard, an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at syracuse university, said here thursday at the annual meeting of the conference on college composition and communication. In a 2008 study, rebecca moore howard, professor of writing and rhetoric at syracuse university, defined. For example, to help writers become at once more cognizant of how such practices are often viewed in academic culture, and also to help them practice the process of interpreting and summarizing difficult material, shell conduct a class session in which the class summarizes particularly. If you want to learn more about patchwriting, check out this video by rebecca moore howard, the scholar who developed this concept.
Defines a form of source usage called patchwriting that relies heavily on summary and which. Guiding students from cheating and plagiarism to honesty and integrity. Howard has championed the idea that student patchwriting is an essential part of the learning process and. Rebecca moore howard is very focused specifically on patchwriting, rather than other methods of plagiarism. As scholarly understanding of the ways students engage with sources has developed since. When she discussed the idea of patchwriting as something that is a normal part of a students learning process, i agreed with her, but only to a certain extent. Rebecca moore howard chairs and directs the writing program at syracuse university. Reading rebecca moore howards article caused me to rethink my own ideas about plagiarism a bit, i must admit. Noting the wpa claim that many discussions of plagiarism fail to observe the distinctions in its definition and arguing that intention can be hard to discern in actual student behavior, hartwig addresses rebecca moore howards concept of patchwriting, in which students incompletely translate source material into their own words. Patchwriting is a term coined by rebecca moore howard to describe what happens when students attempt to paraphrase a source but rely too heavily on the original sources syntax the way sentences are arranged, phrasing, andor vocabulary.
Rebecca pushes the belief that patchwriting is not plagiarism. Rebecca moore howard 2001, who coined the term patchwriting, states that. She said that patchwriting is developmental plagiarism and to keep away from plagiarism, students should be taught how to take notes. In a 1993 article, she proposed the following definition. Plagiarisms, authorships, and the academic death penalty rebecca moore howard i n composition studies, most published discussions of student plagiarism pro ceed from the assumption that plagiarism occurs as a result of one of two pos sible motivations. Rodrigue abstract instead of focusing on students citation of sources, educators should attend to the more fundamental question of how well students understand their sources and whether they.
According to rebecca moore howard, what is patchwriting. She is coauthor of standing in the shadow of giants 1999, the bedford guide to teaching writing in the disciplines 1995, and coeditor of coming of age. Rebecca moore howard 2001, who coined the term patchwriting. Patchwriting as a phase of development college reading.
Avoiding plagiarism hopefully, its clear by now that many cases of plagiarism are unintentional. Interdisciplinary project analyzes patchwriting through. I take issue with the definition of plagiarism offered in diana. They might be instances of what rebecca moore howard calls patchwriting or perhaps simply inadequate citation. A 2008 study directed by rebecca moore howard, professor of writing. A 2008 study directed by rebecca moore howard, professor of writing and rhetoric at syracuse university, suggests that much of the writing by college students is. Sandra jamieson and rebecca moore howard direct the citation project, a national study providing open access empirical data about how college students use sources when writing papers for composition courses. Patchwriting is more common than plagiarism, just as dishonest. Or the student understands what she is reading but is new to the discourse. Patchwriting, for example, though unacceptable for finaldraft academic writing, is a technique that. Patchwriting example can you spot the similarities. Jan 16, 2019 by karen hollingsworth gardiner in her 1992 journal of teaching writing article a plagiarism pentimento, rebecca moore howard coined the phrase patchwriting to describe the student practice of copying from a source text and then deleting some words, altering grammatical structures, or plugging in oneforone synonym substitutes 233. Patchwriting as a phase of development college reading and.
In this essay, rebecca expresses that the rules of plagiarism should be reconsidered especially for patchwriting. Original passage studies about everyday experts ranging from doctors to pilots to loan officers suggest that its. Sep 18, 2012 a 2008 study directed by rebecca moore howard, professor of writing and rhetoric at syracuse university, suggests that much of the writing by college students is intellectually dishonest, but. In the 19th century helsinki was considered the leading example of empirestyle architecture in all of northern europe. For example, a student who had never before studied theories of. Rebecca moore howard, sandra jamieson, and others working on the citation project, have done much to study and measure students frequently problematic practices when they write from sources. Now make sure everyone on your team understands what patchwriting is. But some closed class or function words also appear fairly early. Patchwriting example the similarities taking notes to avoid plagiarism and patchwriting. May 10, 2012 the author of a plagiarism pentimento is rebecca moore howard. Howard has championed the idea that student patchwriting is an essential part of. In an example that drew gasps from some in the audience, about 90 percent of one page in a students research paper was either a direct quote or patchwriting and 9 of its 17 citations referred to the same page of the same source. Constable and many others regard as legitimated plagiarism and in which mime.
Effective summary lwc writing center slider 200, 2703848209 every writer, every message, every point in the process welcome to the conversation. Rebecca moore howard has shown that patchwritingweaving the language of one or more source texts into ones own text without adequately citing the sourcesis a common form of developmental plagiarism. Cheating non attribution of sources patchwriting howard, rebecca moore. Patchwriting academic writing in english, lund university. Patchwriting was coined by professor rebecca moore howard in 1993, with description of copying from a source text and then deleting some words, altering grammatical structures, or plugging in oneforone synonymsubstitutes. In each case, he notes, the writers are making deliberate choices of what to harvest or reject, what to rephrase or replicate. The population of finland in july 1999 was 4,992,311. The instructor poses a problem and gives wait time example. Oct, 2015 actually, the term patchwriting was coined by professor rebecca moore howard at syracuse university, who sees this often used as a way for writers to learn the language of a new genre or subject, lu says. Project information literacy, patchwriting, wikipedia etc. On the other hand, here are examples of acceptable and unacceptable paraphrasing of a. Patchwriting, the third type of plagiarism listed above, is an issue somewhat more complicated than that of citation. For that work, they define patchwriting as restating a phrase, clause, or one or. Toward a nuanced definition sandra jamieson drew university, madison, nj, usa.