Failure to acknowledge borrowed material, so that others' work is taken and used as one's own, is called:
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Failure to acknowledge borrowed material, so that others' work is taken and used as one's own, is called:
- Acknowledgement
- Footnote
- Index
- Plagiarism
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D - Plagiarism
Taking others' work or ideas and presenting them as one's own without acknowledgement is plagiarism. Acknowledgements and footnotes are the means of crediting borrowed material, and an index is a list of topics with page references.
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