Read and evaluate the paired original and alternative texts following. Does the

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Read and evaluate the paired original and alternative texts following. Does the alternative text, or any portion of it, exemplify plagiarism of the original? Explain why or why not.

Original This text is excerpted from: Graham Reynolds, “Nanotechnology and the tragedy of the anticommons: towards a strict utility requirement.” (2009) U. Ottawa Law & Technology Journal 6: 79-114.

Projected to be a "transformative technology" like the steam engine in the eighteenth century, electricity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the internet today,1 nanotechnology has been heralded as having the potential to bring about a new kind of industrial revolution.2 The cross-industry applicability of nanotechnology means that its technological impact "can probably not be compared with any other technical development up to the present time, since it will concern all aspects of human life."3

1 Mohamed H.A. Hassan, “Small Things and Big Changes in the Developing World,” (2005) 309 Science 65-66, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5731/65 at p. 65.

2 Liming Dal, “From Conventional Technology to Carbon Nanotechnology: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Discoveries of C60, Carbon Nanotube and Nanodiamond,” in Liming Dal, ed., Carbon Nanotechnology (Elsevier, 2006), at p. 3.

3 Gunter Schmid, ed., Nanoparticles: From Theory to Application (Wiley-VCH, 2004) at p. 1.

Alternative

Reynolds asserts that nanotechnology is a transformative technology, potentially as significant as any that have come before.1 It could come to affect all aspects of human life in a manner akin to the industrial revolution and the internet today.

1 Graham Reynolds, “Nanotechnology and the tragedy of the anticommons: towards a strict utility requirement.” (2009) U. Ottawa Law & Technology Journal 6: 79-114.

Explanation / Answer

There are some portions of the text that could be paraphrased better, as some phrases are directly taken from the original text. For example “transformative technology” in the first sentence should be put into quotations and cited accordingly. Also, the second sentence does not appear to be an explanation and reasoning of the original author, rather something that the new author has written himself/herself.

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