Yes, students should be taught proper usage, but they aren't. When I was a junior English major in college, we were required to tutor incoming Freshman on basics of writing research papers. It's part of the "Everybody Gets An A For Effort" problem.
At any rate, the words she used weren't even complete sentences. They weren't unique or special in any way. How few words in a row does it have to be to not be plagarism?
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