A graduate student in literature

Source text:

New and improved conveyances that made travel faster, cheaper and easier created a more mobile population, and with mobility came new exposures and interactions. (P. 123). Eventually published as The Relationship of Railway Corporations to Public Hygiene, Cronk’s speech became one of the numerous pamphlets circulating at this time to sound the alarm about the many disease carriers – human, animal, and insect – traveling by rail, turning rail carriers into disease carriers by association.

Source:

Wald, Priscilla. Contagious: cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2008.

Writer’s text:

Travelling is considered to expose people as much in this sterilised world as it did at the time of the first trains (Wald 122-123).

Writer’s comment:

Because I am taking information directly from someone else even if I don’t say it in her words, it’s still her idea…I don’t want to cross these lines, I don’t want to may be accused of plagiarism. It’s maybe I have been told so often: “plagiarism is bad, you’ll be kicked out of university if you plagiarize, don’t do it”. Maybe I’m a bit paranoid but I feel this.