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Plagiarism?
It's Your Call!
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.
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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.
From: Daniel
J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
page 390.
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Student #1
The
telephone was a convenience, enabling Americans to do more
casually and with less effort what they had already been doing
before.
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Student #2
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.
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Student #3
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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Excerpt, examples, and commentary above are from James M. McCrimmon, Writing With A Purpose,
page 499.
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