Understanding Business
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781259929434
Author: William Nickels
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4, Problem 1CT
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To think critically about: The alternate measures which one can take instead of copying a material from others, and what consequences will come out of each measure.
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Plagiarism is the practice of copying someone else’s ideas and information from a location and presenting it as an original data.
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