1. Plagiarism, Emulation, and Originality Beth Shaum & Michael Stohrer

2. Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to: explore the overlap between plagiarism and original creation identify elements of an authors creation that they might want to emulate and then emulate it use emulation as a stepping stone to original creation 3. Demonstration Objectives: Participants will: write an emulation poem select an element they wish to emulate and then apply the emulation of that element to the creative process observe the varying degrees of emulation in other art forms 4. Core Beliefs: We believe: Emulation is a natural part of the creative process and worth celebrating. Art is theft. - Pablo Picasso Art is theft. I came up with that. Michael Stohrer Certain writing situations require adherence to the conventions of attribution. There is a complicated overlap between theft and creation. 5. Research & Support on Plagiarism The academic world is rife with cases of plagiarism, teachers bemoan the inability of their students to be creative while simultaneously defending cherished creative geniuses against such charges, andmost damningly academic work stresses the individual, creative thinker and writer and yet constantly emphasizes a fixed canon of disciplinary knowledge. (Pennycook 212-213) Lethem, Jonathan. "The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism Mosaic." Sound Unbound: Sampling and Digital Culture. Ed. Paul D. Miller a/k/a DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. 1st ed. London, England: The MIT Press, 2008. 25-51. Print. Pennycook, Alastair. "Borrowing Others' Words: Text, Ownership, Memory and Plagiarism." TESOL Quaterly. 30.2 (1996): 201-230. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. . Price, Margaret. "Beyond "Gotcha!": Situating Plagiarism in Policy and Pedagogy ." College Composition and Communication. 54.1 (2002): 88-115. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. . Goldsmith, Kenneth. "It's Not Plagiarism. in the Digital Age, It's 'Repurposing'." Chronicle of Higher Education. (2011): Web. 10 Nov. 2013. . Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty." College English. 57.7 (1995): 788-806. Web. 27 Nov. 2013. . 6. Research & Support on Emulation: Imitatingthe style of a published poet is a clear illustration of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development. The student apprentices herself to a more experienced, more accomplished other... In imitating the style of a poem, students stretch themselves, try something they wouldn't on their own, perform beyond their present skill and development, changing and growing as a user of language, becoming more sophisticated in their understanding and practice of poetry (101). Romano, Tom. Fearless Writing: Multigenre to Motivate and Inspire. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2013. Print. Anderson, Jeff. 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers, 2011. Print. Gallagher, Kelly. Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing through Modeling and Mentor Texts. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers, 2011. Print. 7. Research & Support on Originality All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original If were free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running away from it (7-8). Kleon, Austin. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative. New York: Workman , 2012. Print. Also see Kleons TED talk on the same topic Plagiarism is the basis for all works of art, except, of course, the first one, which is unknown. - Raymond Federman, Imagination as Plagiarism [an unfinished paper] 8. Essential Question: How do artists use emulation and avoid plagiarism while also creating something original? 9. This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold - William Carlos Williams 10. This is Just to Say I have eaten the apples that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold - Beth Shaum 11. This is Just to Say I have eaten the apples that were in the refrigerator and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold - Beth Ann Shaum 12. This is Just to Say I have eaten the apples that were in the refrigerator and which you were probably saving for lunch Forgive me they were very delicious so sweet and so cold - Beth Ann Shaum 13. Erasure Poetry - Originality or Theft? See Austin Kleons original erasure poetry he calls Newspaper Blackout 14. Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa 1503-1505 15. Salvador Dali Self Portrait as Mona Lisa about 1964 16. Fernando Botero Mona Lisa 1963 17. Andy Warhol Mona Lisa 1963 18. Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Lisa 1982 19. Kazimir Malevich Composition with Mona Lisa 1914 20. Banksy Mujahidin Mona Lisa 21. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino Lady with a Unicorn, 1505 Portrait of Maddalena Doni, 1506 Portrait of a Young Woman,1507 22. Sergei Rachmaninoff Prelude in C-Sharp Minor 23. Muse Apocalypse Please 24. Gentle Giant Funny Ways 1970 25. Madvillain Strange Ways 2004 26. Emulation in prose David Foster Wallace The View from the Midwest Invitation to write: Identify and describe 2-3 aspects of (or details in) this text that are the product of DFWs authorial decisions. For each, speculate as to why DFW chose to include it. (What do these aspects contribute to the overall piece?) How might you emulate (one or more) of these aspects in your own work?