Case Study Of Buffy's Explanations

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1. What are the facts? Buffy is in a Distance Learning sociology course, she works full-time at the local hospital and she is a single mother of five year old twins. She has to write a term paper. Her good friend Jim Bob has decided to help her by tweaking his paper. Professor Snidely wants the paper to be an original work of Buffy’s.
2. What are Buffy’s options (choices)? What values must Buffy weigh in considering her options? Buffy’s options are to write the term paper herself so it will be an original work. Another option is to let Jim Bob tweak his paper so she can make it her paper. The last option she could consider is staying up late and working on it so she can make it her own paper instead of using Jim Bob’s paper. The values she

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