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Richard Murphys Anorexia

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Richard Murphy's "Anorexia: A Cheating Disorder." is an essay that uses an ethos driven language to communicate the "perversity" of plagiarism in school writing assignments. The need to communicate is kindled by contrasting two writing papers that present accomplishments and incompetency at the same time due to "discontinuities" in the sentences. The foundation of this essay rests on a circumstantial evidence found through a paper turned in by a male student in the past, which leads to questioning the credibility of a female student's paper in the future, only for Murphy to discover later that it wasn't plagiarized. However, Murphy wasn't completely wrong, but he wasn't right either. Murphy understands the importance of the issues confronted
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