Question

A student wants to restate some ideas she found in a journal article by a prominent expert in economics. She combines her own words with some of the expert's words, which she does not put in quotation marks. She references the article at the end her work. This is _____________.

Answer 1

Question options:

a. Plagiarism b. Not Plagiarism

Answer:

Not Plagiarism

Explanation:

From the above the student explains the authors work and also includes part of the authors work in his work(paraphrasing). Here she is seen to paraphrase the authors work albeit explaining to the best of her knowledge and most importantly, she references the author's article at the end of her work and so cannot be said to have plagiarized the author.

Answer 2

Answer: Not plagiarism

Explanation:

Plagiarism is to steal and convey someone else's idea as one's own. To use another's idea without crediting the source. It also involve presenting a new idea from an existing source without giving credit or referencing the existing source.

There are different types of plagiarism. We have direct plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, self plagiarism, etc.

In the above question, what the student did isn't plagiarism. In the sense that she copied idea from a journal, expressed it in her own words not directly in the words of the prominent expert that wrote the journal article and at the end of her work, she referenced the article. Referencing is a way of preventing plagiarism. She directly gave credit to the source of the information and idea she included in her work.