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The punishable perils of plagiarism - Melissa Huseman D'Annunzio

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Fighting plagiarism is serious business. From brainchild-snatching to wholly quotables, plagiarists have plenty of wily ways to pass others' work off as their own -- and all of them are threats to original thinking. Melissa Huseman D’Annunzio imagines what would happen if a Department of Plagiarism Investigation were on the case.

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Trudi takes a properly cited paper that she wrote two years ago for an anthropology course, changes the date in the heading, and turns it in for a history course.

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  • Director Hache Rodríguez
  • Artist Ivan Espinell
  • Educator Melissa Huseman D’Annunzio
  • Narrator Michelle Snow

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