In the case given, a student called Amanda was accused for plagiarizing because she failed to include the internal citations, though she kept all her sources correctly on her cited page.
In my opinion, both university and Amanda are somehow wrong. First, the university use a online technology called Turnitin which could score papers automatically, faster and easilier and even can check out "plagiarism" by comparing texts the student written with the internet resource and grammatical errors. But it also makes mistakes. For example though there is no seemingly direct link between "same sex marriage" and Eskimos, the software connected the two points automatically. Therefore, I think that university shouldn't rely on this application too much since human fresh is much more flexible than cold mindless machine. And the institution should consider the preceding works Amanda had already done to judge her mistake instead arbitrating her depending only on what the software calculated.
Also, I think Amanda shouldn't use the link directly from the internet, maybe she could click the link and found out the original document and then cited it to her work with the name of the author and the title of the text she read. Besides, she shouldn't put the picture under the comments, which would alter the view of readers and audiance because the picture caused doubts about Amanda's moral quality and whether she treated her researches and papers seriously, though the history works showed that Amanda was hard-working.
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