On Learning Effect of Parody in Writing

Nam, Jeong-hee

Korean Journal of General Education 2012;6(3):627-661.
Published online September 30, 2012.

Jeong-hee Nam

글쓰기에서 패러디의 학습효과에 대하여

남정희

Abstract

In this article we take a look into the creation of work of parody in which college students express their life and emotions in various ways after reading the modern or classical poetry. Even though there have been debate that the works of parody are just nothing but plagiarism without creativeness, the effectiveness of parody for students disciplining in writing have been demonstrated to foster the creativity development. When we let college students as potential poem writer to understand the structure of work and make a parody of some original work of literature, they can manage to produce a form of work with ease. It would be a good practice to use the parodic mechanism in writing so that students could learn the structure of work of literature in terms of it. When it comes to recommend students what kind of work of literature would be the best practice, we have to very careful to select it because the consequence work of parody might vary a lot depending on the choice of it.

Key Words: writing, parody, creativity, plagiarism, life and emotions, structure of work, practice in writing