Exemplar Essays (1 Viewer)

[velox]

What is the policy when using bits of an exemplar essay in your own essays and then regurgitating those similar ideas in an assesment?

Surely its allowed because the there are only a certain amount of correct ideas/themes/analyses of a text?

 

[velox]

thats what im stating. However using the same quotes with similar ideas is what im worried about.

 

[LexxY]

why don't you just write 'hsc student 2004' or whatever the essay came from like that. I mean they dont really own it and arent getting paid for it. but you dont really own what they wrote, and paraphrasing isnt the best either Meh, im sure you dont HAVE to, but it might be better to that just to cover yourself. some teachers can be so shitty about those things

 

[wanton-wonton]

um just change a few words like one word in the middle or rearrange the sentence........ lol i do it all the time. its still ur own work

No, it's not your own work. Using other people's idea without acknowledgement and trying to pass it off as your own is plagiarism, yet most of us do it.

 

[ishq]

Seriously speaking, in any of your essays, there is going to be next to no argument that is original, or that no HSC student (regardless of their band) has mentioned before. I mean, if that were the case, you could not hold any class discussion. There would not be any flow of ideas as each person would have a "copyright" on their readings.

If you share the same views as the person in the exemplar essay, go ahead and flaunt them. Its not plagarism. Its inspiration and agreement.
Just so long as you dont re-iterate word for word.