Turnitin Plagiarism Quiz

What best describes the rightness or wrongness of plagiarism?

• Always wrong because it is theft and fraud

• Plagiarism is not a right or wrong kind of thing

• In some situations, it is OK

• There is nothing wrong with it

Which of the following is not an example of plagiarism?

• Changing a few words of a paragraph someone else wrote

• Borrowing an existing idea and presenting it as a new idea

• Providing the full source for a quotation

• Translating others’ written work into another language without citation

• None of the above

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

• True

• False

If you forget to cite a source in your paper, that is still plagiarism.

• True

• False

Plagiarism is a major concern only in education.

• True

• False

Even though no one may be harmed by it, plagiarism is still unethical.

• True

• False

Which of the following requires proper citation?

• When I include my own ideas that are unique to the paper I am writing.

• When I refer to my own papers that I have previously written.

• None of the above.

Which of the following requires proper citation?

• When using information from crowd-sourced sources, like Wikipedia, because they are in the public domain.

• When using information that is considered common knowledge or widely accessible (for example: most of the Earth’s surface is water).

• None of the above.

To paraphrase properly, you need to:

• Change a few words in the text and cite it to make it your own.

• Put quotation marks around the text and cite it.

• Use only the idea from the text without citing it.

• Summarize the text in your own words and cite it.

Say you found two papers about the same research: Paper A is the original finding; Paper B is an analysis that references Paper A. You use a section of the analysis from Paper B. Which paper do you cite?

• Paper A

• Paper B

• Both