Tenner response

I found Tenner's article, "Rise of the Plagiosphere" a very interesting concept. It is a neat comparison between the biosphere and Darwin's idea of evolution with the Plagiosphere and how it will eventually damage a writer’s ability to be creative. The last line within Tenner's article states, "at least they left us the illusion of the originality of our words. Soon that, too, will be gone." this being a very powerful concept but true never the less. For example lets say I choose a popular idea for the main focus of my paper, the chances that someone else has already written a paper on this idea are very. Given that our main focus to the paper is the same you are bound to find similar sources and ideas that yes, maybe someone else had done in the past. If I was to write a paper on the recent earthquake in Haiti, and I use the phrase "the earthquake in Haiti is a horrible disaster that destroyed thousands of peoples lives." there would be at least one or more articles or papers with the same idea. It is a common idea expressed by numerous people.
With this said it helps me lean towards a topic for our class. After reading the two articles I developed some guidelines for what we should pick. Something that allows a creative expression, can be used in multiple ways to help develop multiple ideas, is a universal interest with the class, and how some diversity factor so devil advocate can be played for a more interesting approach.