Porter

D&J, 4: I believe that the evaluation of a piece of writing should be a summary of the text based on how well it has been written. Usually for me the evaluation of a paper is based on punctuation, grammar and spelling. Before reading Porter’s piece I would not have thought about acceptability. The acceptability, I believe, would be based on various people’s opinions whereas if you have a set standard, it would be easier to evaluate a piece of writing.

D&J, 5: I believe that his piece of writing is original but sources he has used as evidence are unoriginal. The ideas he talks about may have been spoken about before but because he has written them in his own way, makes it an original piece. I believe it is hard for a piece to be completely original because our thoughts and what we write about are likely to come from things we have read or experiences we have faced.

AE, 2: Plagiarism is something which is not written in your own words. If you take an extract from somewhere else you must state the source or else this is plagiarism. Some people believe that having people read over your work and helping you correct it is plagiarism. If you are caught, like Porter says you may have legal consequences.

MM: Porter has changed my perspective on writers. I still believe writers are creative but in a different way. It appears to me that writers need something in order to trigger a creative writing streak rather than just sitting down and being thoughtful. I have never thought of using other authors writing techniques to help my own writing so this will change the way I write for the better and this may increase the creativity of my writing.