Asked by Avery Williams

Compare the student text with the source.
Source: Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos, Sugar Changed the World, page 10. Published by Clarion Books, 2010: To this day you can find piles of sugar cane heaped in tropical markets—offering buyers a refreshing treat that is somewhere between a candy bar and an energy drink.
Student text: Sugar cane tastes like a cross between an energy drink and a candy bar (Aronson and Budhos 10).

Is the student text plagiarized?
A. No, it is not plagiarized.
B. Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks.
C. Yes, because it fails to cite the source.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
B. Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks.

The student’s wording closely mirrors the source and does cite it, but they did not put the borrowed phrasing in quotation marks (or format it as a block quote), so this is improper use of a direct quote and counts as plagiarism.