Question

Andrew decides to paraphrase a passage from a book that explores preventing corruption in politics. he takes the passage, determines its meaning, and completely restates it in his own words so that the ideas in the passage are conveyed with no borrowing of the author's words. he also includes a citation. did he commit academic dishonesty?

Answer 1

NO, Andrew did not commit academic dishonesty. This is because, the write up he wrote was written in his own words and he acknowledge the original owner of the ideas in the book he used by writing a citation.