Every form
of writing is somehow a remix. An individual get their ideas from something
they read or something they saw and then they gather all of the ideas and write
them down in a concise and orderly manner. “Remix” is taking something that has
already been done and remaking it to make it your own. Remix and assemblage are
beneficial to our understanding of composing practice. They allow people to
create new ideas by dissecting old ideas and making them their own. When we
think of a remix we think of people remixing a song. The person who remixed it
was probably not the individual who made the song. What they did was get a song
by a different artist and change certain things about the beat and the order of
the lyrics. They take something and make it new and make it their own. It can
be better than the original or not as good. Assemblage is taking old ideas and
mixing them with new ideas. This is how books and movies are made. In the show
Once Upon A Time they get fairytales and add a new twist to them. They
modernize something that is old by taking the old stories and telling them in a
different light. No longer are the characters one-dimensional because through
the use of assemblage they are brought to life.
There are
many benefits of remix and assemblage but there are cons as well. When things
are taken and remixed the original message could be lost or ruined. Remix could also coincide with plagiarism.
Its different to use someone else’s ideas and credit them to help your argument
but to take their ideas is wrong and illegal and something than can get you
kicked out of school. Remixing someone’s ideas could be used as a supplement to
your paper but there is a line that once crossed is considered plagiarism. Some
people do not even realize they are doing it. Assemblage and remix both have
many positive benefits to the understanding of composing practices. It can be
used as a tool to teach students how not to plagiarize and how to take ideas and
expand on them to make them their own.
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