EXERCISE 36–4Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers

Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample is plagiarized or uses the source correctly. If the student’s sample is plagiarized, click on Plagiarized; if the sample is acceptable, click on OK.

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ORIGINAL SOURCE

While Easter Island was divided into about eleven territories, each belonging to one clan under its own chief and competing with other clans, the island was also loosely integrated religiously, economically, and politically under the leadership of one paramount chief. On other Polynesian islands, competition between chiefs for prestige could take the form of inter-island efforts such as trading and raiding, but Easter’s extreme isolation from other islands precluded that possibility. Instead, the excellent quality of Rano Raraku volcanic stone for carving eventually resulted in chiefs competing by erecting statues representing their high-ranking ancestors on rectangular stone platforms (termed ahu).

From Diamond, J. (2004, March 25). Twilight at Easter [Review of the books The enigmas of Easter Island, by J. Flenly & P. Bahn, and Among stone giants: The life of Katherine Routledge and her remarkable expedition to Easter Island, by J. A. Van Tilburg]. The New York Review of Books, 51, 6, 8-10.

[The source paragraph appears on page 8.]

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