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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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Renee, the daughter of a U.S. DPI secret agent, procrastinated all semester and started her creative writing project the night before. Renee looked up a random poet online and copied and pasted her poems into her project, claiming them as her own original poems. Renee engaged in the most egregious form of plagiarism, according to the DPI.

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

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