Where Should We Draw the Line with Plagiarism?

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Where Should We Draw the Line with Plagiarism?

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Reread the At Issue box at the beginning of the chapter. Then, read the sources on the following pages. As you read these sources, you will be asked to answer questions and to complete some activities. This work will help you to understand the content and structure of the material you read. When you have read the sources, you will be ready to write an argumentative essay in which you take a position on the topic, “Where Should We Draw the Line with Plagiarism?”

SOURCES

Jack Shafer, “Sidebar: Comparing the Copy”

Lawrence M. Hinman, “How to Fight College Cheating”

Trip Gabriel, “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age”

Elizabeth Minkel, “Too Hard Not to Cheat in the Internet Age?”

Richard A. Posner, “The Truth about Plagiarism”

Dylan Byers, “Plagiarism and BuzzFeed’s Achilles’ Heel”

K. Balibalos and J. Gopalakrishnan, “OK or Not?”

Dan Ariely, “Essay Mills: A Coarse Lesson in Cheating”

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