English 1A
Week 7
May 5, 2018
Plagiarism Exercise
John Smith
After reading the excerpt from Robert Bellah, I caught the main points. This helped
me detect plagiarism on the following paragraph. It’s mostly the words that they use to
make the paragraph a bit shorter. There was also another students excerpt where they are
not plagiarizing and it seems like their genuine work. These students don’t have the same
words or writing from the original excerpt. This exercise helps students realize if they are
plagiarizing even if they haven’t noticed.
I chose the 1st students excerpt. This is the one I believe is plagiarizing. He is using
