Question

For the purposes of the remaining text, we shall put the question of animal intention aside and consider an animal liar if it signals to fellow creatures the presence of a threat when it is not in fact there and, subsequently, benefits from not having to share resources (Dawkins, 1989).

Answer 1

Answer:

This is not plagiarism

Explanation:

According to a different source, this is the full question:

In the case below, the original source material is given along witha sample of student work. Determine the type of plagiarism:

Original Source Material:

If a bird used the 'There is a hawk' signal when there was no hawk, thereby frightening his colleagues away, leaving him to eat all their food, we might say he had told a lie. We would not mean he had deliberately intended consciously to deceive. All that is implied is that the liar gained food at the other birds' expense, and the reason the other birds flew away was that they reacted to the liar's cry in a way appropriate to the presence of a hawk.

References: Dawkins, R. (1989). The selfish gene (3rd ed.).Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Student Version:

For the purposes of the remaining text, we shall put the question of animal intention aside and consider an animal liar if it signals to fellow creatures the presence of a threat when it is not in fact there and, subsequently, benefits from not having to share resources (Dawkins, 1989).

Options:

• Word-for-Word plagiarism
• Paraphrasing plagiarism
• This is not plagiarism

This is not plagiarism. In this example, the student does not engage in plagiarism. In this text, the student rephrases some of the ideas that Richard Dawkins puts forward. However, she does not rewite any part of it word-by-word. Moreover, she ensures that her source is clear by providing the author and year after the idea she took from the text.