A Plagiarism Pentimento

Rebecca Moore Howard is a writing professor and has writing about literacy education and mainly plagiarism. She does not write about what I expected, and actually talks about the other side of the spectrum. Howard explains that students are the main population for plagiarism when really, the students are mainly using a strategy called patchwriting. In Howard's story, she tells about when she taught at Colgate University and her students were plagiarising, or that is what she thought at least. She then figured out that they were just patchwriting, using a source's texts, but altering the grammatical structure. Howard proclaims that students need to be taught how to patchwrite better, and plagiarism all together will not be as big of a problem as well.