Question

In the case below, the original source material is given along with a sample of student work. Determine the type of plagiarism.

Original Source Material

What, however, does not merge in this autobiographical text are the ego boundaries of mother and daughter, mother and granddaughter. They always stand apart but close, always in relation to each other, always in a mental and spiritual proximity, but as presented by the text, never threatening each other's subjectivity. In this way, this textual representation of female and, in particular, maternal subjectivity rewrites--or rather, writes herself out of--the patriarchal inscription of the maternal: there is no fusion between the mother and the child; as is the self-sacrificial element of mothering missing from the text.

References:
Séllei, N., (2009) The mother in mourning as the subject of autobiography in Rosamond Lehmann's The swan in the evening: Fragments of an inner life. In A. O'Reilly, & S. Caporale-Bizzini (Eds.). From the personal to the political: Toward a new theory of maternal narrative (pp. 170-182). Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna University Press.

Student Version

The patriarchal perspective of the maternal, particularly, the mother as a self-sacrificing individual whose identity fuses with that of the child, contrasts with the mother-child relationships in the text. The mother-daughter ego boundaries never merge in this autobiographical text.

Which of the following is true for the Student Version above?

A. Word-for-Word plagiarism
B. Paraphrasing plagiarism
C. This is not plagiarism

Answer 1

B. Paraphrasing plagiarism

Step-by-step explanation:

This an instance of paraphrasing plagarism because : first, the writer has not made the corresponding author's reference within the text, and second, the writer has reorganised the main ideas from the original text using his / her own style. The writer has used : "The patriarchal perspective of the maternal" instead of "..the patriarchal inscription of the maternal.." Then, the writer has written: "...the mother as a self-sacrificing individual whose identity fuses with that of the there is no fusion between the mother and the child.." instead of "... as is the self-sacrificial element of mothering missing from the text."