Is it paraphrase or plagiarism?

Is it paraphrased or plagiarism?

identify correct paraphrase.

Is this paraphrased or plagiarized?

Original Passage: Despite its origin in scientific research and educational pursuits, it did not take long for marketers, advertisers, and public relations practitioners to find the Internet. What they found was an uncharted land that rivaled their wildest dreams. More than a decade later the Web remains the least regulated of all mass media. Although the dot com bust of the early 2000s slowed the commercial expansion of the web, we are beginning to witness a strong rebound in every area, including online advertising. Today, the one feature that best defines the web is its unrelenting commercialism.*

Paraphrase Attempt: Although it was originally used in scientific research and education, marketers, advertisers and PR people quickly found the Internet. They were happy to discover a medium that was mostly unregulated and still is more than ten years later. Although there was a slowdown a few years ago due to the dot-com bust, commercial use of the web is increasing again; one of the most obvious aspects of today's web is commercialism.

It is plagiarized!

The writer altered a few words and phrases, but he did not paraphrase the original paragraph and he failed to give credit to the original source.

Multiple Choice

Original Passage: Despite its origin in scientific research and educational pursuits, it did not take long for marketers, advertisers, and public relations practitioners to find the Internet. What they found was an uncharted land that rivaled their wildest dreams. More than a decade later the web remains the least regulated of all mass media. Although the dot com bust of the early 2000s slowed the commercial expansion of the web, we are beginning to witness a strong rebound in every area, including online advertising. Today, the one feature that best defines the web is its unrelenting commercialism.*

Parphrase attempt: Although it began as a non-commercial medium, its relative lack of regulation quickly made the Internet attractive to business. Despite some ups and downs, commercial use of the web is now obvious and pervasive (Ebersole).

• Paraphrase

• Plagiarized

Multiple Choice

Original Passage: Frodo is no Arthur, and that, in a way, is Tolkien's point. He is a little man, not a national hero. The glorious days of epic and romance are long past, and the actions of hobbits, of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances have superseded the larger-than-life heroes, their deeds, their chivalry and courtly valor. Nevertheless, the same poignance and sense of loss pervade both stories.*

Paraphrase: The character of Frodo is not much like King Arthur, because Tolkien is making that a point. As a hobbit Frodo is an ordinary person who lives long after the days of romantic, epic heroes. Although he lives through amazing events, Frodo is still ordinary, not larger-than-life. Nonetheless, both Tolkien’s writings and the stories of Arthur share a sense of loss.

• Paraphrase

• Plagiarized

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Original Passage: If we are to take Tolkien's work as he wrote it and as he clearly wanted his audience to read it—as a true mythology, with all the layering and multiple narrators and overlapping texts and variant versions that characterize mythologies in the real world—then we must allow that, like those real-world mythologies, all the parts, even the apparently inconsequential ones, are in the greater service of the whole. To read his work as anything less is to do a disservice, perhaps even a violence, to it. *

Paraphrase Attempt: Tolkien wanted his many writings to be viewed like a real mythology, including different versions of the same stories written by different people. All his works, both famous and less-known, are important as part of the same overall mythology. A reader who treats Tolkien's work otherwise is not doing it justice (Flieger 84).

• Paraphrase

• Plagiarized

Multiple Choice

Original: Common beliefs can change over time. For example, most people once thought the Sun orbited around the Earth. Smith pg 6

Paraphrase Attempt: People believed at one time that the Sun orbited the Earth. Nowadays, people know the opposite, showing that common beliefs don’t stay the same (Smith 6).

• Paraphrased

• Plagiarism

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Original Passage: "It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it" (Krakauer 155).*

Paraphrased Attempt: John Krakauer explains that children believe what they desire is no less than what they deserve…if they want something badly enough, it is their God-given right to have it.

• Paraphrased

• Plagiarized