Avoiding 'de-plagiarism': Exploring the affordances of handwriting in the essay-writing process. (July 2019)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Avoiding 'de-plagiarism': Exploring the affordances of handwriting in the essay-writing process. (July 2019)
- Main Title:
- Avoiding 'de-plagiarism': Exploring the affordances of handwriting in the essay-writing process
- Authors:
- Wrigley, Stuart
- Abstract:
- This article discusses and challenges the increasing use of plagiarism detection services such as Turnitin and Grammarly by students, arguing that the increasingly online nature of composition is having a profound effect on student composition processes. This dependence on the Internet is leading to a strategy I term 'de-plagiarism', in which students copy/paste text into their essays and then 'cleanse' the text to avoid plagiarism detection. I then argue that this is being done in the context of an increasingly 'de-authored' writing environment, manifested by lack of formative writing development and anonymous marking, rendering the student invisible in the writing process. I then report on a phenomenon observed in class – namely that students who handwrote an exercise produced better, more original writing than those who typed, leading me to explore the affordances – via Bakhtinian notions of dialogicality and addressivity – of handwriting as a means of 're-authoring' the essay-writing process.
- Is Part Of:
- Active learning in higher education. Volume 20:Number 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Active learning in higher education
- Issue:
- Volume 20:Number 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 20, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0020-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 167
- Page End:
- 179
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07
- Subjects:
- authorship -- handwriting -- plagiarism -- student composition -- writing processes
Active learning -- Periodicals
Education, Higher -- Periodicals
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http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/ij/sage/14697874/contp1.htm ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1469787417735611 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1469-7874
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