Marty is having problems coming up with an idea for a speech.He knows his fraternity keeps files of old tests,papers,and speeches and decides to look through these for an idea.He finds a great speech about bats,their value to ecology,and their habitat.He likes this speech so much that he decides to use it largely intact but goes to the Internet to update the sources.Which of the following statements best describes this situation?

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Marty's actions constitute plagiarism since he is presenting someone else's work as his own without proper attribution. Just because the speech was in the fraternity's files does not diminish the fact that it is someone else's intellectual property. Marty should either come up with his own speech or properly cite and potentially adapt the original speech into something that is more his own work.

Marty Is Having Problems Coming Up with an Idea for a Speech.He