Plagiarism, Paraphrasing and Summarizing Exercise

The exercise based on a material from the University of Southern Mississippi (How to Avoid Plagiarism: Paraphrasing and Summarizing, https://www.lib.usm.edu/plagiarism_tutorial/howto_para_summ.html).

For three examples, students are supposed to answer following questions:

1. Is it plagiarism?
2. How much of the original words and phrases are used?
3. Is it clear how much is being credited to Nickerson?
4. How well have Nickerson’s ideas been re-worded or re-phrased into the writer’s own words?
5. How successful a paraphrase of the original piece is it?
6. How effective a summary of the original piece is it?