English Composition

Running head: ENGLISH COMPOSITION
English Composition
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1ENGLISH COMPOSITION
1. Although the Smiths had already eaten dinner, they allowed Johnnie to prepare his plate at
the stove and join them at the table.
2. Sarah chose to go on to the field trip to Atlanta and was nearly bursting with energy as she
boarded the bus.
3. I believe the paper napkins will affect the color scheme you selected for the wedding
regardless of what Ms. Compton says.
4. We shall proceed with the bake sale, and all proceeds will go to the Children’s Mission.
5. “May I attend the party with Bret?” I asked Dad. “I know he’s not your favorite person.”
6. People can often work too much, which leads to burnout.
7. Your understanding of this novel is so thorough.
8. He set the plan plant on the windowsill so that it could take advantage of the pretty
weather.
9. Blake didn’t know if he passed his exam.
10. You must accept the fact that his being here affects you greatly.

2ENGLISH COMPOSITION
11. Plagiarism and its avoidance
Plagiarism may be defined to be the malpractice of stealing information of any other
author or source by copying directly from that source without thepermission of the author,
and without acknowledging that author (Angélil-Carter, 2014). According to the rule of
Journalistic Ethics, conduction of any type of plagiarismis a breach of ethical considerations
of writing. This essay will aim to define the negative effects of plagiarism as well as to
address two methods to avoid plagiarism in writing.
Plagiarism is considered a crime in the writing profession and attracts lots of
penalties, the most noticeable of which is the copyright infringement penalty, which can
result in severe punishments, including imprisonments (Harris, 2017). Although plagiarism is
not a direct punishable offence by the law, however, it is a punishable offence according to
institutions. Various institutions have different definitions of plagiarism. For an instance,
Stanford counts plagiarism as the use of someone else’s work without providing appropriate
credit to its source. Moreover, Princeton views plagiarism as a serious act of threat to
intellectual property of a source, and defines it as an intentional use of a source’s ideas or
knowledge without giving the source its proper credit.
The negative effects of conducting plagiarism can vary from getting expelled from the
institution to going in jaildue to copyright claims and subsequent court cases. However, the
one sure consequence of producing plagiarized content is the severe hampering of the
reputation of the producer along with his/her institution. Plagiarism invites with it serious
destructive criticism, which when reaches a high point, can even result in destroying careers
as well as affecting one’s whole life. In addition to that, the educational papers which have
been detected with plagiarism is bound to get cancelled by the higher authorities, and the
subsequent publication of any such paper may also get delayed or even rejected due to the