15. A student who wanted to be lazy and not do all the research for a paper just copied a paper of a similar topic that they found online and turned it in. The teacher recognized the paper and failed the student. Why?

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15. A student who wanted to be lazy and not do all the research for a paper just copied a paper of a similar topic that they found online and turned it in. The teacher recognized the paper and failed the student. Why?
The student unintentionally plagiarized the paper.
The student intentionally plagiarized the paper.
The student did not cite their sources correctly.
The student used too much bias in their paper.

GPT-4o mini · Answer

The correct answer is: **The student intentionally plagiarized the paper.** Plagiarism involves presenting someone else's work as one's own, and since the student copied a paper they found online and submitted it without proper attribution, it constitutes intentional plagiarism, regardless of the student's intention to be lazy.