tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193284457263034796.post4168814585645804750..comments2023-09-22T12:12:22.775+01:00Comments on Waterlily: Care to translate........Nev Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047359519459723079noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193284457263034796.post-89303820178459238252008-01-22T11:16:00.000+00:002008-01-22T11:16:00.000+00:00Andrew/Sarah,Thanks for the comments. Having had t...Andrew/Sarah,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comments. Having had the 'cut and paste' discussion with both of my sons over home work production I am firmly in the 'it’s not a positive process' camp.<BR/><BR/>Sarah, - my education went up a small notch last night - I now know more about modernism and postmodernism - I have been exposed to both before but never fully understanding their meaning -so thanks go for the comment.<BR/><BR/>NevNev Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07047359519459723079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193284457263034796.post-25683369949183670312008-01-21T21:15:00.000+00:002008-01-21T21:15:00.000+00:00And I think the book sounds like rather a load of ...And I think the book sounds like rather a load of pretentious tosh - but what do you expect from literature people. Probably all postmodernists, pah! I have no time for this sort of old nonsense that gets academics a bad name. I do local government, me. OK, I do do political theory too, but in a totally non tossy way. It's all about who gets what and who gets to tell who what to do and why. That's it. The thing with colons in book titles though ... if you actually looked at the book on the shelf, it would just have a title in big letters and a subtitle in smaller letters ... would you read it then? It's only when you copy it out that you have to separate them with a colon.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14207397235093098621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9193284457263034796.post-76335927819829380882008-01-20T11:20:00.000+00:002008-01-20T11:20:00.000+00:00Nev, I have a good rule of thumb - never read a bo...Nev, I have a good rule of thumb - never read a book with a colon in the title. It'll have been written by academics for academics. <BR/><BR/>The book you found is obviously one of those! <BR/><BR/>'Standing in the shadow of giants' echoes Isaac Newton's comment that he only managed to achieve a lot because he 'stood on the shoulders of giants' (e.g. Socrates, Archimedes etc) <BR/><BR/>I think the book blurb is trying to say that students who simply copy their essays from the internet aren't necessarily cheating, but might still be learning something. <BR/><BR/>The very act of looking for things and cutting and pasting them together is another form of learning. <BR/><BR/>Thinking live here, I'll name it 'Photoshop literature'. <BR/><BR/>(Using a picture analogy, you might not be able to see or take a picture, but you could still come up with some original work by manipulating several images together - the originality is in the edges, where you try to match up one person's image to another.) <BR/><BR/>If Andy Warhol was still alive, he'd probably approve of copying your schoolwork from the internet! <BR/><BR/>But I'm old school and I don't! <BR/><BR/>Going back to blogs, you could make your own observations about the things Sarah and I say, and create something new. <BR/><BR/>Instead of standing in our shadow, simply stand on our shoulders!<BR/><BR/>Which is what you are doing now, well done. <BR/><BR/>Wine can make some great blog posts. But it's best to check it over the following morning. <BR/><BR/>Write with wine, edit with a hangover; that's a good precept.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08927670897815686822noreply@blogger.com