In Wiebe's essay Plagiarism and Promiscuity, plagiarism is address on a 21st century level. It states thats its not enough to run essays through a detection system. Not all of the content used is even in the digital database, and most of these tools don't detect 'custom essays'. It is up to educators to address the issue at the source, and to make sure students know what all counts as plagiarism. Most people don't even know that they are cheating.
In Ridolfo and Rife's article Rhetorical Velocity and Copyright, we see the example of using an image with out the subjects approval as Copyright infringement. But the way the picture travels and makes its way through the campus suggests the act of Rhetorical Velocity; the act of actual rhetoric sailing through time and space in order to inform others of the issue long after the image was taken.
In these two article we learn about the dangers and consequences of both plagiarism and copyright. Both must be taken into account in order to produce sound and safe information. Rhetorical Velocity cannot always be controlled. And once a story gets out its hard to stop it from circulating around the current media.
To avoid plagiarism and copyright we need to have correct information from multiple sources and give little to no room for interpretation in our work, less it be taken the wrong way and used for the wrong purposes.
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