A third year student has submitted a assessment task in hard-copy and it looks to the teacher like a paragraph may have been copied from elsewhere. The teacher does a quick Google search and discovers that four consecutive sentences have come from an online article. A bibliographic reference to the relevant article appears in the Reference List but there is no in-text citation. There seems to be no other issues with the submission.
How do you think that it should be evaluated?

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A third year student has submitted a assessment task in hard-copy and it looks to the teacher like a paragraph may have been copied from elsewhere. The teacher does a quick Google search and discovers that four consecutive sentences have come from an online article. A bibliographic reference to the relevant article appears in the Reference List but there is no in-text citation. There seems to be no other issues with the submission. 
 How do you think that it should be evaluated?

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It should be ignored - this does not constitute plagiarism

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The student has plagiarised - but it should be assessed as  Poor Academic Practice because it is so minor

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The student has plagiarised a significant amount - it is Medium-Level Academic Misconduct

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The student has plagiarised a relatively insignificant amount -  it is Low-Level Academic Misconduct

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