Asked by Avery Williams

Compare the student text with the source.

Source: Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, A Black Hole Is Not a Hole, page 5. Published by Charlesbridge, 2012:
Nothing can out-tug a black hole. No army of tow trucks, no convoy of supersized earth haulers, no fleet of giant rocket engines.

Student text: The pull of a black hole is so strong that nothing can pull stronger, not even a "fleet of giant rocket engines" (DeCristofano 5).

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.

The student both cites the source (DeCristofano 5) and places the verbatim phrase "fleet of giant rocket engines" in quotation marks; the rest is a paraphrase.