Direct Plagiarism: Example 2Did you catch a second example of direct plagiarism in the text I just showed you? Here it is, again in red:
Student Writer's passage:
Long ago, when there was no written history,
these islands were the home of millions of happy birds; the resort of
a hundred times more millions of fishes, sea lions, and other
creatures.
Here lived
innumerable creatures predestined from the creation of the
world to lay up a store of wealth for the British farmer, and a store
of quite another sort for an immaculate Republican government
Source passage, from A.J. Duffield The Prospects of Peru London:
Newman, 1881, p. 78:
In ages which have no record
these islands were the home of millions
of happy birds, the resort of a hundred times more millions of fishes,
sea lions, and other creatures
whose names are not so common; the
marine residence, in fact, of
innumerable creatures predestined from
the creation of the world to lay up a store of wealth for the British
farmer, and a store of quite another sort for an immaculate Republican
government.
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