During lecture, your English literature instructor said William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence” was, in part, “an early diatribe

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During lecture, your English literature instructor said William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence” was, in part, “an early diatribe

about animal rights.” You wrote this phrase down while taking notes. would it be or not be plagiarism to use the phrase "early diatribe about animal rights" in an assignment for your philosophy class without crediting your literature instructor?

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SIZIF [17.4K] · Answer 1 · 2024-02-27T08:33:39+03:00

The use of the phrase; "early diatribe about animal rights" in the philosophy assignment would not be plagiarism.

<h3>What is plagiarism?</h3>

Plagiarism is it's most primitive description is presenting another individual or group's work or ideas as one's own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into one's work without full acknowledgement.

The above definition however includes not only published materials, but unpublished materials too.

However, in this scenario, only the phrase is used and not the English literature instructors idea.

Hence, it follows that the use of the phrase is not termed plagiarism as the phrase is the student does not state the author's idea about William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence".