Plagiarism: Example #5

1. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
   • Example: Jelani found a great paragraph in a journal article. He changed it just enough with a few words to make it look like his.

Braasch, G. (2013). Climate change: Is seeing believing?. Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists, 69(6), 33-41. doi:10.1177/0096340213508628

The image bottom left is a paragraph in a 2013 article on climate change.

The image bottom right is Jelani's use of the paragraph where he simply changes a few words and rearranges some of the sentences (his changes are in yellow). Jelani also does not cite the paragraph.

Simply changing some words and/or restructuring a sentence or two does not make the paragraph Jelani's. He is STEALING the words of another.