Mosaic Plagiarism: Example 2Did you catch this second example of mosaic plagiarism in the same passage, also shown in red?
Student Writer's passage:
Only two years later,
all these friendly Sioux were suddenly plunged into new
conditions,
including starvation,
martial law on all their reservations,
and
constant urging by their friends and relations to join in warfare
against the treacherous government that had kept faith with neither
friend nor foe.
Source passage, from Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of
the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian
Tribes New York: Harper, 1881, p. 178:
Contrast
the condition into which all these friendly Indians are
suddenly plunged now,
with their condition only two years previous:
martial law now in force
on all their reservations; themselves in danger of starvation, and
constantly exposed to the influence of emissaries from their friends
and relations, urging them to join in fighting this treacherous
government that had kept faith with nobody &mdash neither with friend
nor foe.
This is not legitimate. Writers must either quote and cite or paraphrase and cite. Removing a few words here and there doesn't stop it from being "kidnapping." |