Digital Dive: Plagiarism Is Just Plain Nasty

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Perhaps the most common speech topic that students choose is “why be vegan.” Speeches that are available online, like the one you will search for next, are frequently plagiarized, although students may not even realize they are plagiarizing ideas and language.

After reading Digital Dive: Plagiarism Is Just Plain Nasty, watch the video clip of Gary Yourofsky's The Most Important Speech You Will Ever Hear.

After you have watched the first clip, then watch this student speech on the same topic.

Speaker 2:

Question 1

What points or phrases in Yourofsky’s speech did you find particularly powerful?

Question 2

How did the student’s “borrowed” phrases make you feel? Why?

Question 3

Did the student violate an assumed sense of trust? If so, where does this sense of trust come from? If not, why not?

Question 4

If the student had given credit to Yourofsky for his words, would her speech have been weaker or stronger? Why?