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Plagiarism?
It's Your Call!
Plagiarism
means not crediting a source, whether you're copying word-for-word or
paraphrasing a passage. This original passage below is a sentence from a book.
Following that are examples of the way that three students used this sentence
in their papers. Excerpt, examples, and commentary are from:
McCrimmon, J.M. (1984). Writing with a purpose. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 499-500.
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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 (Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, p 390).
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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.
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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.
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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."2
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