4. 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 Daniel J. Boorstin's book "The Americans:
The Democratic Experience" page 390, New York, Random House
[1973]. 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.
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Abbie
The telephone was a convenience, enabling Americans to do
more casually and with less effort what they had already been
doing before. 1
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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. 1
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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."
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1. Excerpt, examples, and commentary above are from James M.
McCrimmon, Writing With A Purpose, page 499. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1988. |
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