Question

Margaret O'Connor is an upcoming poet from Georgia who recently updated her blog with her piece of writing titled, Shadows. One of her readers copied her piece onto his own blog and passed it off as his original work. This is an example of ________.

A) online identity theft B) embezzlement C) shadowing D) plagiarism

Answer 1

The answer is "option D"

Explanation:

Plagiarism is the way of stealing some other person's ideas or words and using them as their work. It is divided into four parts that are Direct Plagiarism, Self Plagiarism, Mosaic Plagiarism, and Accidental Plagiarism. In the given question other options are not correct that can be described as:

• In option A, It is software that is used to provide someone else's identity.
• In option B, It refers to white-collar crime, in which the property transfer to he or she are misallocated by a person or entity.
• In option C, It is a method that is used to increase the speed of a computer by using high-speed RAM.