Asked by Avery Williams

Compare the student text with the source.
Source: James Cross Giblin, When Plague Strikes, page 14. Published by HarperCollins, 1995:
Although it was only an eighth of an inch long, the rat flea was a tough, adaptable creature. It depended for nourishment on the blood of its host, which it obtained through a daggerlike snout that could pierce the rat's skin.

Student text: During the Bubonic Plague, the rat flea fed on the blood of rats, "which it obtained through a daggerlike snout that could pierce the rat's skin" (Giblin 14).

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

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

The student uses quotation marks for the exact phrasing taken from the source and provides an in-text citation (Giblin 14). The rest is a brief paraphrase of the original, which is acceptable.