Plagiarism Risk Quiz: Economics Passage 1

Below is a passage from a scholarly publication and a student's attempt to paraphrase the passage. Please indicate by clicking on the appropriate button whether or not you think the paraphrase has plagiarized the original passage.  The result will help you determine whether you risk committing plagiarism while trying to paraphrase a source.

Original passage, taken from:  Friedman, Thomas L.  The Lexus and the Olive Tree.  New York: Anchor Books, 2000, c1999.  [This is how the source would appear in your References section.]


Paraphrase: Thomas Friedman argues that Globalization Round II began after the Cold war ended.  Round I occurred after World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Great Depression, events which fractured the world into many pieces.  Then the Cold War kept the world frozen into two sides until it ended, at which point globalization once again reigned (2000 p. xvii).

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