My private tutor helps me revise my paper by rewriting a paragraph or two for me. This is:

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- Question: My private tutor helps me revise my paper by rewriting a paragraph or two for me. This is:
- Options:
  1) plagiarism
  2) not plagiarism if she tells me I can use that paragraph
  3) not plagiarism because I pay her for her help
  4) not plagiarism at all, because it was my original work, she just revised

Option 1: plagiarism
This choice identifies the act as plagiarism because the student is presenting someone else’s written words as if they were their own. Even though a tutor did the rewriting, the student is still submitting text that is not originally created by them. In academic writing, using another person’s exact phrasing or closely paraphrased material without proper attribution constitutes plagiarism. The key issue is misrepresenting authorship and not giving appropriate credit for the source material, regardless of who performed the editing.

Option 2: not plagiarism if she tells me I can use that paragraph
While the tutor’s permission to use the rewritten paragraph might seem to grant permission to use the text, this does not automatically remove plagiarism. If the student presents the paragraph as their own writing without clear quotation marks and a proper citation, it is still an instance of presenting someone else’s language as their own. Properly quoting, paraphrasing with attribution, or obtaining explicit assignment guidelines is necessary to avoid plagiarism.

Option 3: not plagiarism because I pay her for her help
Payment for services does not negate the issue of misattribution. The ethical and academic integrity concerns hinge on ownership of the produced text and disclosure of sources. Simply paying for help does not make the tutor’s rewritten paragraphs the student’s original words; without appropriate citation or quotation indication, this remains problematic and can still be considered plagiarism.

Option 4: not plagiarism at all, because it was my original work, she just revised
This statement is misleading. The paragraph after revision is not the student’s original wording or ideas; the student is incorporating the tutor’s rewritten text into the paper. Even if the ideas originated with the student, the exact phrasing belongs to the tutor or is a derivative work. Without proper attribution, quotation, or clear indication of which portions are quoted, presenting this as entirely the student’s original work is not accurate and constitutes a form of plagiarism or at least an academic integrity violation.

37:575:202:08 HISTORY LABOR & WORK Plagiarism Quiz LS 202 Edition

My private tutor helps me revise my paper by rewriting a paragraph or two for me. This is:

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