Which excerpt from a student essay below is an example of plagiarism? A) The character of Henry V is a amiable monster, and the
play itself is famous for all the wrong reasons. B) Critic Majorie Garber gives an overview of different critics' views of the character of Henry in her book on Shakspeare (45). C) Some critics believe that Shakespeare's military play cannot be great art because it is too "jingoistic and chauvinistic" (Garber 45). D) Some critics believe Henry V to be "an amiable monster," while others believe the play to be famous "for all the wrong reasons" (Garber 45).
The sentence that contains plagiarism is the following: The character of Henry V is a amiable monster, and the play itself is famous for all the wrong reasons. This sentence contains plagiarism because it uses another author's ideas and does not give credit either through acknowledgment of sources in the sentence itself or through parenthetical documentation of the source at the end of the sentence.
