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Direct Quote Paraphrase

Character Name
Professor John Doe Character Name
ENC1101 Professor John Doe
25 July 2017 ENC1101
25 July 2017
Toward a Better Academic
Future Toward a Better Academic Future

Plagiarism is a concern in Plagiarism is a concern in academia
academia with serious potential with serious consequences if not attended
consequences if not attended to. to. According to Jane Smith plagiarism is
“Plagiarism by definition is to steal stealing or passing off someone else’s The author
or pass off the words or ideas of words without giving them proper credit was
another as one’s own without (1). mentioned in
crediting the source” (Smith 1).
the sentence.
The student
placed the
The page number
phrase in “ ”
quotations is included in Because the student did
for a direct parentheses not copy the words
The student took the quote. before the period. exactly, they do not
author’s last name and need to put quotations.
page # & placed them
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in parentheses.

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