Question

Question 3 (2 points)

The following passage is from page 32 of the book Timeless Classics by Fiona Pagona:

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is Harper Lee’s first and only published book. But as the saying goes, “If you do something right the first time, you need to do it only once.” The 1960 tale has become a timeless classic. To Kill a Mockingbird was made into a film. It won several Academy Awards. The novel was even adapted to play form.
Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a U.S. civilian can receive. Other recipients include César Chávez and Walt Disney.

Which of these plagiarizes the passage shown above?

Question 3 options:

Lee joined award winners like César Chávez and Walt Disney in receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Pagona 32).



Harper Lee has published only one novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, but the book has become widely popular (Pagona 32).



Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a U.S. civilian can receive (Pagona 32).


The story of To Kill a Mockingbird can be experienced in a variety of different ways, such as in movie form or play form (Pagona 32).

Answer 1

Answer: Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a U.S. civilian can receive (Pagona 32).

Step-by-step explanation:

• Plagiarism, in general, is a term for using other people's ideas as your own, without citing the source. The rule is that, if we want to include quotes from other works in our own work, we need to both include the quotation marks and acknowledge the source.
• Depending on the citation style that we opt for, we can acknowledge the source either in the text itself, in a footnote or in a list of references. However, regardless of the style, we must always include the quotation marks when we repeat the exact words of an author (if we paraphrase them, we do not put the quotation marks).
• In the case above, the quotation marks are not used, which is why we consider it a plagiarism.