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Kathleen M. Collins and James L. Collins argarita sits in 9th-grade English, busily working on a piece of writing. The class has read and discussed newspaper articles, and their teacher has asked them to write about one of them, summarizing and evaluating what it says. Margarita writes quickly, and she seems to be having no serious difficulty with the task. When she has finished, however, her writing contains many ideas copied directly from the article (as indicated here by italics). The following is an excerpt: