{"id":119,"date":"2012-04-16T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:01:04","slug":"transform-your-writing-like-bees-transform-pollen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/2012\/04\/16\/transform-your-writing-like-bees-transform-pollen\/","title":{"rendered":"Transform your writing like bees transform pollen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"beehive<\/a>\u00a0(Image credit: French School (15th century), Bridgeman Education, Image no. XIR192862)<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr Catherine Walter, University Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Fellow of Linacre College is a member of the Turnitin User Group. She\u00a0found and translated this very apt piece. It could help students understand a little\u00a0more about how to avoid plagiarism:<\/p>\n

‘Bees pillage the flowers here and there, but then they make honey of them, and this is all theirs; it is no longer thyme or marjoram: likewise pieces borrowed from others: \u00a0the author transforms them and blends them, to make a work that is all his own, \u00a0according to his critical judgment: his education, his work and his studies all aim at forming that judgment.’ \u00a0 \u00a0 (Catherine’s translation)<\/p>\n

Original:<\/p>\n

Les abeilles pillotent deci dela les fleurs\u00a0:\u00a0mais elles\u00a0en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur :\u00a0ce n’est plus thym,\u00a0ny mariolaine : ainsi les pieces empruntees d’aultruy, il les\u00a0transformera\u00a0et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien, a\u00a0Savoir son iugement : son institution , son travail et estude\u00a0ne vise qu’i le former.\u00a0
\n<\/em>(from Full text of “Essais de Michel de Montaigne avec les notes de tous les commentateurs”, approx. 1575) Available at\u00a0http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/essaisdemicheld00montgoog\/essaisdemicheld00montgoog_djvu.txt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0(Image credit: French School (15th century), Bridgeman Education, Image no. XIR192862) Dr Catherine Walter, University Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Fellow of Linacre College is a member of the Turnitin User Group. She\u00a0found and translated this very apt piece. It … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/tii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}