Plagiarism tends to rear its ugly head at least once a semester, and in my ENC101 class, I have seen it already, so I thought I'd show it to you as an example.
Here is a sample passage from the reading on which the first paper is based, an essay by Barbara Ehrenreich called "Are Families Dangerous?":
“Still, we shrink from the obvious inference: for a woman, home is, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place to be. Her worst enemies and potential killers are not strangers but lovers, husbands and those who claimed to love her once.” (Ehrenreich 38)
This is a passage from the student's essay:
Still, we seem to fall-short from the exposed presumption that, for some home is the most dangerous place to be. Her or his worst antagonist and possible killer are not intruders, but lovers husbands or wives and those who once claimed to have loved.
What do you think happened? Imagine you are that student: what is your thought process?
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