Oscar: I have been accused

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Stimulus

Oscar: I have been accused of plagiarizing the work of Ethel Myers in my recent article. But that accusation is unwarranted. Although I admit I used passages from Myers' book without private correspondence to do so.

Millie: Myers cannot give you permission to plagiarize. Plagiarism is wrong, not only because it violates authors' rights to their own words, but also because it misleads readers: it is fundamentally a type of lie. A if another person agrees to the deception.

What this question is testing

Sufficient Assumption

Your task

Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.

Common trap

Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.

Winning move

Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.

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The question

Which one of the following principles, if established, would justify

Answer choices

Trap21% picked this
A writer has no right to quote passages from another published source if the author of that other source has not granted
21%
Trap2% picked this
The writer of an article must cite the source of all passages that were not written by that writer if those passages are
2%
Trap1% picked this
Plagiarism is never justified, but writers are justified in occasionally quoting without attribution the work of other writers if the work
1%
Correct73% picked this
An author is entitled to quote freely without attribution the work of a writer if that writer relinquishes his or her
Why this is right
Answer D is correct.
Skill tested: Sufficient Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
73%
Trap2% picked this
Authors are entitled to quote without attribution passages that they themselves have written and published in
2%

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