Writing – Example 6
Easily detected: second hand data
Knossos is by far the largest of the later palaces (surface area measured at one level: ca. 13,000 m.2; note that much of this area was covered by two or more stories of building), Knossos is merely one example of an architectural type which is repeated in four presently known examples [also Mallia, with surface area of 7,600 m.2; Phaistos, with surface area of ca. 6,500 m.2; Zakro, with surface area of ca. 2,800 m.2].
Verdict: Plagiarized; including details gathered from a remote site where the writer is unlikely to have gathered first-hand data is suspicious.
Resolution: Author needs to use quotation marks on the "lifted" sentences or block quote the entire paragraph and cite the source. (See Citation styles.)