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Meera, an analyst at a Pune firm, copies three paragraphs from a competitor's published market study into her report without quotation marks or any acknowledgement. Which description fits her act most accurately?

Her act is plagiarism. She reproduced another author's paragraphs without quotation marks or acknowledgement, presenting them as her own work. Public availability of the study does not remove the duty to credit the source, and selecting only some paragraphs does not turn copying into editing.

  1. APlagiarism, because another author's words are presented as her ownCorrect
  2. BParaphrasing, because the content is relevant to her report
  3. CProper citation, because the study is publicly available
  4. DEditing, because she selected only three paragraphs

Explanation

Using another person's words without quotation marks or credit passes them off as one's own, which is plagiarism. Public availability does not remove the duty to acknowledge, and paraphrasing would still need a citation and rewording.

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