Lucy finds a great article on the internet while researching her speech. she especially likes a paragraph in the article that makes one of her main points using language that is vivid and amusing. she changes a few words of the paragraph then uses it in her speech without attributing it to the original author. lucy has:

Lucy has plagiarize or has committed plagiarism

Explanation:

Even though Lucy has changed few words but still this is someone else's idea .

When one takes something from the internet or from any other source which is written by someone else they should read it , try to understand the meaning and write it in their own words .

Even after one has written the information in their own words they still need to acknowledge that the idea was taken from someone else's work .

They will do this by citing the author within their writing and references will be written at the end of their writing .

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