Case 1-3 Damon asks his friend Tanya to test his understanding on computer and business ethics.
Tanyaasks Damon to provide a scenario that is an act of plagiarism. Which of the following scenarios can Damon provide?
A)A teacher sharing a poem with a class, leading the class to believe the poem was his original work
B)A newspaper reporter paraphrasing a few sentences or paragraphs written by another author without changing the meaning of the text, including the revised text in an article, and crediting the original author with a proper citation
C)A student copying and pasting information from various online documents and using those quotes in her research paper either indented or enclosed in quotation marks with the proper citations for each author
D)A philosopher referring to the information available on the Internet and using certain quotes in her research paper either indented or enclosed in quotation marks with the proper citations for each author

Question

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Scenario A is an act of plagiarism because the teacher is presenting someone else's work (the poem) as his own without giving credit to the original author. This misleads the audience into believing the work is original, which is a clear violation of ethical standards regarding the use of someone else's intellectual property.

Case 1-3 Damon Asks His Friend Tanya to Test His