Argument of Goodwin's Plagiarism

I think Noah putting those links into his article only help with the understanding of the point he is trying to convey. When I clicked on a link, it led me to a site that had just been referred to in the article. It helped me to go a little further into the paragraph just discussed, which helped me not only to understand better what Noah was talking about, but it also gave me another little outside quip about the article at hand. That helped to make it more believable and credible. If I had an argument published on the internet, I would mostly likely use the resources at hand and use links to better my argument. The only problem with links is, if something on the linked page looks more interesting then what the reader is currently engaged in, they will lose focus on my article, so that is one thing to be watchful of. Overall I think that links are beneficial to an online article with an argument.

I really liked the fact that Noah used some of Goodwin’s work in his article. Being someone who hasn’t read any of Goodwin’s books, and having these concrete examples helped me to better understand Noah’s argument and even convinced me to side with him. The best quotes were the ones that showed the clips from the book that Goodwin supposedly plagiarized off of and then showed the copying paragraph, which he used for the argument that even if words are changed around a very little bit, they must be quoted, because they are not paraphrased enough. They were almost identical, making me believe Noah’s argument.