Plagiarized Hugh Holman

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Despite your claims that the information you paraphrased from Hugh Holman’s A Handbook to Literature was common knowledge and the paraphrasing you’ have done, you still plagiarized. You seem to have some misunderstandings which have led you to believe that this is acceptable.
Your essay was plagiarized because you failed to give credit to Holman for using ideas from his book. If we look at Holman’s literature he uses the Norman Conquest then Renaissance as timeframes to compare, then delves into the specific years of 1100 to 1500, finishing with an explanation of how the Normal Conquest occurred in 1066 and pieces written before 1500. Comparing this with your piece, though the wording is different, you discuss the exact same ideas in the exact

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