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Plagiarism Exercise
PhD Clinical Psychology, Walden University
CPSY8002L: Foundations for Grad Study
Dr. Baker
October 18
th
, 2023
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Plagiarism Exercise
The student has plagiarized their work a great deal. Plagiarism is defined by the Walden Student Handbook as the “use of intellectual material produced by another person without acknowledging its source (Walden University, n.d).” Throughout the student’s work, she will take word for word the original authors work without crediting them.
One sentence from the passage that is clearly plagiarized is when the student states, “But it is hard to know if a conflict of interest between doctors, researchers, and the drug company stockholders has tainted the results (Walden University, n.d).” The original author directly reports “yet unless there is evidence of misconduct (the deliberate misrepresentation of something as fact by someone who knows it is not), it is
very difficult to discover and virtually impossible to prove that a piece of biomedical research has been tainted by conflict of interest (Walden University, n.d).” The student very clearly copies the exact sentence the author originally writes. The student took a few words out of their sentence to make it appear as though they paraphrased when they did not contribute their own thoughts or independently write their own words (Walden University, n.d). Another sentence from that passage that is clearly plagiarized is when the student states “although biomedical research incorporates rigorous scientific rules and is often critically scrutinized by peers, the information can nevertheless be warped (Walden University, n.d.)” The original author states “biomedical researchers
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incorporate strict rules of science into their work, which is examined by peers (Walden University, n.d).”
Paraphrasing Exercise
O'Conner (2003) argued that reading should not be challenging. People should be able to read a writer’s work clearly without confusion because of the difficulty of their
writing. O’Conner (2003) states that when work becomes too complex, it is at the fault of the writer and not the reader, and the writer should do better at simplifying their work.
Additionally, O’Conner (2003) implies that when an individual does not fully understand,
they increase the difficulty to make it appear that they indeed know what they are talking about.
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References O’Conner, P. (2003). Woe is I: The grammarphobe’s guide to better English
in plain English. New York: Riverhead Books.
Walden University. (n.d.). Academic Skills Center:
Plagiarism
. Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCplagiarism