Asked by Avery Williams

Compare the student text with the source.
Source: Joe McGasko, "L. Frank Baum: The Wizard Behind the Curtain." Published on Biography.com, 2016:
But simply murmur the names "Dorothy and Toto," and it would be hard to find one living person who wouldn't immediately recognize the most famous products of L. Frank Baum's imagination.
Student text: According to McGasko, most people are familiar with the beloved characters of Dorothy and her dog Toto from L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.

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.

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
A. No, it is not plagiarized.

Reason: the student has paraphrased the original idea and explicitly attributes it to McGasko ("According to McGasko"). Quotation marks aren't needed for a paraphrase; the student has cited the source by name.