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A report writer copies three sentences from a competitor's published market study into her own report, with no quotation marks and no acknowledgement of the source. This act is best described as:

The act is plagiarism. Presenting another author's words as one's own, without quotation marks or acknowledgement of the source, is plagiarism. It is unethical and can carry legal consequences, unlike proper paraphrasing with credit, cross-referencing or annotation.

  1. APlagiarismCorrect
  2. BParaphrasing
  3. CCross-referencing
  4. DAnnotation

Explanation

Using another person's words or ideas as one's own without acknowledgement is plagiarism. Paraphrasing with proper credit is acceptable, and cross-referencing only points to another part of a document. Annotation means adding notes, so it does not describe unacknowledged copying.

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