8. A student finds some interesting information on a website that is not under
copyright. She downloads several paragraphs and incorporates them into her
paper, but doesn't cite them, because they are in the public domain.
Is this plagiarism?
This is plagiarism. Although the student was correct to cite the article in her bibliography, this is not enough. If she uses the ideas in her paper, she needs to acknowledge the source of those ideas in the paper itself.
