Plagiarism? It's Your Call!
Plagiarism ranges from copying word-for-word to paraphrasing
a passage without credit and changing only a few words. Below is a sentence
from a book. The original source is followed by its use in three student
papers. For each student's version check the pull-down
box to see if the passage would be considered plagiarism.
| Original Passage
Still, the telephone was only a convenience, permitting Americans
to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been
doing before.1 |
| Abbie
The
telephone was a convenience, enabling Americans to do more casually
and with less effort what they had already been doing before.
|
Brian
Daniel J. Boorstin argues that the telephone was only a convenience,
permitting Americans to do more casually and with less effort what
they had already been doing before.
|
| Chad
Daniel J. Boorstin has noted that most Americans considered the
telephone as simply "a convenience," an instrument that
allowed them "to do more casually and with less effort what
they had already been doing before."2
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| 1 (Daniel J. Boorstin, The
Americans: The Democratic Experience, page 390. 2 Excerpt,
examples, and commentary below are from James M. McCrimmon, Writing
With A Purpose, page 499.) |
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