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If You Accidentally Omit Quotation Marks Around a Direct Quote, but Provide a Citation You Have Not Really Committed Plagiarism. Select

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If you accidentally omit quotation marks around a direct quote, but provide a citation you have not really committed plagiarism. Select one:

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False. Even if you provide a citation, omitting quotation marks around a direct quote *is* plagiarism. You are presenting the words as your own, even though you've acknowledged the source. A citation alone is insufficient; you must also correctly indicate which words are directly taken from the source using quotation marks.