WEEK 10: SUMMARY AND REFLECTION ON COMPUTATIONAL STYLISTICS

SUMMARY ON COMPUTATIONAL STYLISTICS from afiqah rosa khadijah awatif


REFLECTION ON COMPUTATIONAL STYLISTICS

          Every author or writer have their own distinctive styles of writing in their works. Literary works can be in the form of novels, short stories, poems, and also plays. Sometimes, they purposely stick with one style of writing to distinguish their works from other writers. Moreover, the style will become the significance features of their writing that make it easier for readers to recognize their works.

           In Computational Stylistics studies, the computer’s function is to detect the pattern and similar in style of writing. It can be done manually by people, but with the help from computer, the result became more accurate and the process is easier. A lot of time can be saved from analysing it through computer. There are many good programme and software that offers such assistance.

          As writers, it is important for them to protect their own works from being plagiarized by others. In every work done by them it is followed by their hardship and also immense effort to complete each work. So, as readers and morale people, we need to honor their works and effort by giving credit for what they have done. There is nothing wrong for us to take the ideas from them as long as it is not exceeding the limitations that comes into the door of copying or plagiarizing. The matter of plagiarizing is a misconduct that people often forget to look at. Allah s.w.t has given us the same ability and talent, we just need to improvise it and use our mind to be creative in every work that we want to do. As Allah had mentioned in Al-Quranul Kareem, in Surah Al-Kahfi, verse 84,

"Verily, We established him in the earth, and We gave him the means of everything".                                  

In this particular verse, it is clear mention about Allah s.w.t had given us the knowledge, method and ways to do anything. it is according to our own effort that makes it either useful or wasted. So in this matter, a question for us Muslim, why we need to copy or plagiarize other works if we could have done better work than others?  :)