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USudent Plagiarizes Prize-Winning Photography Case Study

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UP Student Plagiarizes Prize-winning Photos by Carol Ramoran http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/39566-up-student-admits-plagiarized-photos
Q – Question & Explore
1. How does the context of the problem or issue affect how it is interpreted or presented?
- The circumstance of the problem is that the awards and the subject of the photos were so important, more so because they involve children, greatly affects how the issue is viewed on a larger scale. This is because the act of plagiarism is actually depicted as worse in this situation because Solis is exploiting impoverished children and the emotions of people about such sensitive topics in order to achieve fame.

U – Understand & analyze arguments
1. What is the argument’s main idea and what reasoning …show more content…

This is where he won his largest prize yet of $1,000 in cash and round-trip tickets to Brazil and Chile. Following his exposure, all of the awards he received were invalidated. This is also not the first time that Solis has plagiarized, upon further investigation and according to “Narinig Ko Sa UP” Facebook page, this is Solis’ fifth time plagiarizing since 2011. The author reasons that plagiarizing is wrong and unfair to those whose work is being copied. Smith was very upset that “an imposter… abused [his] …show more content…

What are the argument’s main ideas and what reasoning does the author use to develop it?
- The author’s main idea is about a four-year legal battle case that was ruled in favor of plagiarism stating that it was a measured copy of Sander’s image. This supposedly “plagiarized” photo was one that had appeared years later in the advertising campaign of FNOTSI. The image was an identical picture to Sander’s own of a couple kissing on a carousel. The author states, “The photograph… had been commissioned specifically by advertising agency Prisme, and… unlike Sanderson’s image, the blurred background was taken separately and digitally added in later.”

E – Evaluate Multiple Perspectives
1. What patterns or trends can be identified among the arguments about this issue?
- One trend that can be identified about this issue is that most of the opinions for this argument is from Sander’s himself, who is stating rather negatives remarks about the situation. For example, Sander’s states, “It was irritating, as you can imagine, by the court case dragging on, when it was so obvious that [the Frappa photograph] was a rip-off, and a copy.”

S – Synthesize Ideas
1. What are the consequences of

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