"Trespass vision"- a personal offense

Trespass- to commit an offense against.  Vision- the ability to see or the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom.  These two ideas are so different that their combination into a single entity is seemingly unnatural and creates almost a state of unease upon reading.  Yet the term "trespass vision" was coined by Tillie Olsen and has been powerfully used in rhetoric ever since.  

Royster uses the term in her speech "When the first thing you hear is not your own" to illustrate her frustration with others that speak with an authority that they don't have.  I think of vision as having passionate and innovative ideas backed with logic.  Vision needs to be cultivated, not necessarily by books and facts, but by thoughts and experiences.  Through this shaping, it becomes extremely personal.  This vision guides the journey to authority and understanding, legitimate and honest power. Trespassing is an offense, but has a stronger connotation.  Trespassing is a violation, not of the law in this context, but more personal. 

I think that "trespass vision" is so enraging to Royster because she perceives it as such a personal offense.  To listen to someone who assumes that they know and understand a perspective in which they have no background or a superficial background can be intolerable, especially if you understand the truth they are trying to fake.  

As I break this concept of "trespass vision" down further, I can see how it relates to plagiarism.  Plagiarism is the ultimate "trespass vision" because it entails assuming an authority that the writer has not earned. It is skipping the journey and benefiting from the end product.  However, when there is not time to take the journey, this is an enticing option.  This is where problems in interdisciplinary writing come into play.  Due to the sheer amount of time and effort it would take to learn and understand the discourse of another discipline, students and writers are more likely to slip into habits of plagiarism.  

Unfortunately, time is often a limiting factor in learning and in life.  It is an inevitable element of the journey. Plagiarism appears to provide a shortcut to the destination, but the land is plastered with keep out signs.  Thus presents one of the great academic moral dilemmas, the choice to trespass and trod upon the visions of those who have completed the process or conquer the journey set before you.