{"id":458,"date":"2025-02-12T12:36:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/?p=458"},"modified":"2025-02-12T12:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:36:35","slug":"the-total-synthesis-of-a-field-hockey-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/the-total-synthesis-of-a-field-hockey-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The Total Synthesis of a Field Hockey Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1138\/2025\/02\/The-Total-Synthesis-of-a-Field-Hockey-Team-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of The Total Synthesis of a Field Hockey Team (1).\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d39f2de5-f6a1-49b4-8904-44256bfe76c6\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1138\/2025\/02\/The-Total-Synthesis-of-a-Field-Hockey-Team-1.pdf\">The Total Synthesis of a Field Hockey Team (1)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1138\/2025\/02\/The-Total-Synthesis-of-a-Field-Hockey-Team-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d39f2de5-f6a1-49b4-8904-44256bfe76c6\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My initial aim for the project was to create a lab report that had nothing to do with science, but it took me a little while to decide on the actual topic of my project. One of the most common kinds of publications in organic chemistry is \u201cThe Total Synthesis of X,\u201d so I thought it would be clever to make my project on synthesizing a <em>thing<\/em> rather than a <em>chemical.<\/em>&nbsp; I then settled on synthesizing a field hockey team, because the sport is a very big part of my identity here at Smith. I followed the American Chemical Society format for an organic chemistry publication and created \u201cThe Total Synthesis of a Field Hockey Team.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we are beginning our spring season, I have put a lot of thought into the values and practices that make a team function smoothly, so I thought it would be fun to take the ideas about teamwork that I share from other sources that have nothing to do with field hockey. I was hoping that by the end of my project, I could share it with my team and get everyone pumped up and inspired by one another. I was pleased that so many sources, even ones not about sports, had the same idea of the importance of teamwork and collaboration, so I was able to make a cohesive report that aligns with my ideas about creating a healthy team dynamic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first few sources were easy to find. I was following the template of an American Chemical Society publication, so I found a couple chemistry papers that I could steal wording from. I also knew that I wanted to find some current news articles about DEI and rework them into this context, because I wanted to highlight the positive parts of DEI that are under fire in the media right now. Then, because I knew the kinds of language I would use to describe the important parts of a functioning field hockey team, I went fishing for sources that I could adapt to my needs. I would sometimes look up a particular keyword and then hit the \u201cnews\u201d column on Google to find more recent sources. I also stole a line from the book I am currently reading for fun, called <em>In Ascension<\/em>, as well as from the song \u201cOne\u201d by U2. Basically, I knew that I wanted to have a large number of diverse sources, and I made that happen by having a clear sense of the kinds of words I was looking for. I made a master doc with every line I intended to plagiarize in the order that I found them, and then spent a painstaking amount of time pasting them into the order that flowed the best.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My work is original for a couple of reasons. First, I\u2019m pretty sure that I\u2019m the only person to have made an ACS format journal article about the synthesis of a field hockey team. So that\u2019s original. The intention behind my project is entirely unique and different from the intention behind every single source that I plagiarized. Second, I\u2019m the only person who has read all of these sources and decided to put them together in the way that I did. By definition, my piece must be original. While I used other people\u2019s words, it took time and creativity to be able to construct a second meaning from them. So, yes, my project is proudly a plagiarism. I didn\u2019t write any of the words I used, save for a couple of propositions or pronouns. But yet I still take 100% ownership of this plagiarism, and I can say that I authored this text. As we determined in class, claiming authorship is assigning your name to a text and having conviction in the meaning behind your text. I am proud of this report, and I firmly stand behind every word I said, so I authored this plagiarized text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My initial aim for the project was to create a lab report that had nothing to do with science, but it took me a little&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/the-total-synthesis-of-a-field-hockey-team\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Total Synthesis of a Field Hockey Team<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7148,"featured_media":460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-an-original-plagiarism-sp25","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1138\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-12-at-12.33.15-PM-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/wrt118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}