You are reading a book to write an essay for your Communication course and have found a very helpful sentence. You know you should not copy it directly from the book, so you paraphrase it without citing the original by re-arranging the sentence pattern and replacing words with synonyms. Have you committed academic dishonesty?
A.
No, because I have paraphrased the sentence and turned the sentence into mine.
B.
No, because I have adopted only one sentence from the whole book.
C.
Yes, because rearranging and replacing are not enough to paraphrase the sentence.
D.
Yes, because I should acknowledge someone else’s idea.