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... mind and skill is to commit plagiarism . To put it bluntly , plagiarism is the act of stealing the ideas and / or the expression of another and representing them as your own . It is a form of cheating and a kind of academic misconduct ...
... mind and skill is to commit plagiarism . To put it bluntly , plagiarism is the act of stealing the ideas and / or the expression of another and representing them as your own . It is a form of cheating and a kind of academic misconduct ...
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... mind was apt to be impatient . It is impossible for the historian of the Maybrick case to ignore the statement , frequently made , that at the time of her trial the judge's mind was suffering from the early attacks of an insidious ...
... mind was apt to be impatient . It is impossible for the historian of the Maybrick case to ignore the statement , frequently made , that at the time of her trial the judge's mind was suffering from the early attacks of an insidious ...
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... mind works when reading a sentence , compare these two sentences : The girl somehow suggested a Chinese princess ... mind refreshed by its pause between sentences , that general idea is immediately pushed into the background by the ...
... mind works when reading a sentence , compare these two sentences : The girl somehow suggested a Chinese princess ... mind refreshed by its pause between sentences , that general idea is immediately pushed into the background by the ...
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