Is it plagiarism if they have used ideas from a book/film but changed details and put it in their own words? So within a whole two page text, a couple of events are similar to those in a film/book, but not the same? E.g. in the book there is a homeless man shivering in a doorway who sees something special. In the coursework there is a homeless girl shivering in a doorway - she too sees something special but what she sees is different from the thing the man in the book saw (obviously my example is not what the candidate wrote!).
A friend of mine's teen thought it would be ok to do something similar to the above example - college say no. Who is right?
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GCSE English coursework - plagiarism
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midnightlurker · 26/01/2017 10:07
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