Question

Original :

Many physical education and health curricula have been developed to foster active, healthy lifestyles through various learning outcomes and objectives. Although such a goal may be desired and valued by our society, ways to achieve this goal are less understood. If elementary physical education is to assist children in developing skills and understanding that will serve as the foundation for future activities, then educators at all levels need to develop ways to foster these skills and understanding across numerous types of activities.

Student:

While society may broadly appreciate and desire educational objectives that can help people lead healthy lives, the exact approaches necessary to reach these desired outcomes are not well understood. Mandigo and Anderson (2003) highlight the need for educators "to develop ways to foster these skills and understandings across numerous types of activities" (p. 8) as an important step towards making this desire a reality.

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

Answer: C. This is not Plagiarism.

Explanation: In the student version, he or she neither copied the original content word for word without enclosing them in a quotation marks nor copied the structure of the statement.

The student kept the original meaning without copying word for word as well as the structure.

Also he cited and enclosed the the statement he copied to show he just borrowed them and it was his or her original idea. So this is not Plagiarism

Answer 2

Answer: THIS IS NOT PLAGIARISM.

Explanation: Plagiarism is the use of someones literature work without acknowledging the person. It is a theft of knowledge in it's simplest term. But when acknowledged it is assumed to be a borrow of knowledge, which is always acceptable because no one knows everything.

The student has acknowledged the source that was cited to build it's literature work, so therefore it is legal for the student to copy as much information from the book, be it paraphrasing of Word-for-word.