Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?

• Borrowing someone else's words,  ideas, or works to help make your point.
• Presenting the words, ideas, or works of others as your own.
• Using the words, ideas, or works of others to support your argument.
• Shoplifiting. 

What is a DIRECT QUOTE?

• Using the author's exact words.
• Only using someone else's words.
• Using the most important facts from an article.
• Putting something into your own words.

According to this picture, what's the easiest way to avoid plagiarism?

• Never use the Internet
• Cite some of your sources
• Use your own ideas
• Reword everything you find

Significantly shortening a passage into one’s own words & keeping the gist of it is known as

• Quoting
• Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• Copying

Is it acceptable to copy-and-paste a sentence written by someone else into your paper and simply add quotation marks around it?

•  Yes, that shows it is not original text
• No, that is an incomplete citation

You re-use paragraphs from a paper you wrote last semester and put it into a new assignment, and you don’t cite it because it’s your own work. Is this plagiarism?

• No, it isn’t plagiarism.
•  Yes, it is self-plagiarism.

A source doesn’t need to be cited if it’s collaboratively written on a webpage like Wikipedia.

• True
• False

Is it necessary to cite information that is common knowledge or widely accessible, like historical information or popular scientific information, e.g. 70% of the earth is covered in water?

• Yes
• No

How do you know if information is "common knowledge"?

• If the information is all over Facebook.
• If it is something you were taught in Elementary school.  
• If the information is found undocumented in 3-5 credible sources. 
• If it is something everyone around you already knows. 

You see something on Twitter and Facebook that you really like, so you:

• Copy-and-paste the post onto your own pages
• Give credit to the person you took it from