The Oxford Dictionary defines plagiarism as, <em>"</em><em>The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own</em><em>”. </em>Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty that entails including or using someone else's words without citing or giving due credit.
The student has paraphrased the text really well, without using the original author's words. The direct quotation is also correctly structured to avoid plagiarism. As a rule, direct quotes are placed in quotation marks, with due credit to the author and quoted verbatim.
