Question

Use the passage below to answer the question

"Baseball Bores Me" by Sam Hughes

Baseball is rather surprisingly known as "America's Favorite Pastime." It is a rather boring sport played between two teams of nine players. As silliness would have it, the players use a wooden or metal bat to hit a ball around a diamond-shaped playing field. At each of the points of the diamond is a marker, called a base. Home base is where the batter stands. Players from the opposing team are positioned at the other bases: first, second, and third. A batter scores a run by hitting the ball and running around the bases before members of the other team can tag him with the ball. The batter must run counter-clockwise around all of the bases and back to home to get a point. This might sound exciting, but it's not.

Which of the following, if included in a student's paper, would NOT be an example of plagiarism?

Answer 1

Using a direct quote from the passage and properly attributing it to the author is not an example of plagiarism.

Step-by-step explanation:

Plagiarism, defined as using someone else's work or ideas without giving them proper credit, is a serious academic offense. In the context of the given question, if a student includes a direct quote from the passage and properly attributes it to the author, it would not be an example of plagiarism. When using a direct quote, it is important to enclose the text within quotation marks and provide an in-text citation or a citation at the end of the sentence.