Description
Instructions: Below you will find a short excerpt from an essay that a real-life student once submitted to my course. Read it carefully. Then, follow the link inside the Week 2 module to Sparknotes.com. Read the second paragraph of the article you see there. Compare that paragraph to the student’s work below, and complete the following steps:
1) Highlight in yellow any portion of the student’s essay that either contains citation errors or plagiarism.
2) Using Mrs. Bingham’s plagiarism rubric, assign the student’s work a level of plagiarism (e.g., Level 1—Nearly Plagiarized, Level 2—Technically Plagiarized, etc.). Assume that the student has never plagiarized before in the course and that the rest of the essay (which you don’t see) does not contain plagiarism.
3) Explain why you assigned the level that you did.
4) Re-save this document as lastname_firstname_plagiarism and submit to the appropriate dropbox.
5) Take the Is It Plagiarism? survey and anonymously share the level you chose. Compare your answer to the results from the rest of the class.
Excerpt 1:
Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller. In this play Arthur Miller acts out issues about American national values. Success and freedom is what comes to mind when most people think of the “American Dream”, but not all views are the same. The ways of living, money, and security also plays a huge part in living what is called the “American Dream”. This play scrutinizes the cost of blind faith in following the American Dream. Also shows the personal truths and views of the original American Dream viewed by the country’s founders. “Death of a Salesman,” focuses on the painful struggles within one family, but at the same time speaks on much bigger problems about American national principles.
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