Lucy Finds a Great Article on the Internet While Researching

question 20

Multiple Choice

Lucy finds a great article on the Internet while researching her speech. She especially likes a paragraph in the article that makes one of her main points using language that is vivid and amusing. She changes a few words of the paragraph then uses it in her speech without attributing it to the original author. Lucy has

• A) plagiarized the author's work
• B) violated the ethical criterion of honesty
• C) merely paraphrased the author's work, not plagiarized it
• D) both a and b

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