Example 2: Insufficient Acknowledgement - Plagiarism

Original Source Material
Student's Version

There is a new term on the horizon: 'mobile entrepreneurs'. For the most part, mobile entrepreneurs are professionals who start their own businesses, using the skills, knowledge, and contacts they accumulated in previous jobs. Many establish themselves as independent consultants, while others continue to work for the same company but perform their jobs from their homes.

Tieger and Barron-Tieger found that some professionals, after years of working as employees in corporations, decide to embark on entrepreneurship, mostly as private consultants. These professionals have enough skills, knowledge, and contacts acquired in previous positions to make them decide to start their own business.
Source:
Tieger, Paul D. & Barron-Tieger, B. (2001). Do what you are. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company.
Reference:
Tieger, Paul D. & Barron-Tieger, B. Do what you are. 

Analysis:

  • Note that the student is mentioning a source for the information, but no citation is given.
  • The student is not providing the reader with complete information about the source, either in the text or in the reference, and assuming that the audience is familiar with the information.

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