The student's text revision was an obvious plagiarism. The mistake of the writer was that he/she only copied and paste most of the text from the two sources. He did not made an effort to paraphrase the copied lines, or write personal insights on the topic. It would be better if the author wrote with his/her own words, paraphrased the lines/borrowed ideas from the two sources and most importantly, cite/mention the author's name and year of publication when inside the text.
This revision mentions the author's surname in every starting sentence of every paragraph, which was not done by the first writer in Revision 1. Although, the student wrote the author of the borrowed idea/lines mostly in the first sentence of the paragraphs, the whole text could still be accused of plagiarism. It lacked proper citation of the author, especially on the part of copied lines. The copied lines could be considered as his/her own ideas for those readers who do not know about the source articles, which in truth is just copied. The article would be better if the writer would use quotation symbols to directly quote a person's saying/idea. The student could also paraphrase the borrowed idea and use his/her own words and put some personal opinions on the text. Most of all, cite appropriately the source of the idea/data like the author, year of publication, page number, date that the idea/data was retrieved, etc. The same process as with the first student to prevent plagiarism.
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