Research Skills

Your friend completed a course last year and gives you his paper. You re-type the whole thing, changing a few words here and there and adding in a few of your own thoughts. This is...

• efficient

• clever

• academic honesty

• academic dishonesty

It is the night before a research paper is due and you don’t have any work done. You buy a paper online. This is ...

• efficient

• plagiarism

• a good way to spend your money

• academic honesty

You quote a line from a very popular song in your essay and don’t cite it because everyone knows who sings it. This is...

• plagiarism

• not plagiarism

• academic honesty

• musical

You find a chart that will really strengthen one of the major points of your essay. You don’t cite it because it’s just a chart and they do not need to be cited. This is...

• providing credibility to the person who created the chart

• academic honesty

• plagiarism

• using facts

You copy a paragraph directly from an article you found. You cite the source but don’t use quotation marks. This is ...

• not plagiarism

• academic honesty

• plagiarism

• careless

You find an excellent idea in an article and you use it in your assignment. You don’t bother to cite the source because it is completely in your own words. This is...

• great research

• academic honesty

• lazy

• plagiarism

You find a short passage in a book and you change a few words so it’s different from the original. You carefully cite the source and include a References page. This is...

• plagiarism

• great research

• academic honesty

• poor research

You go to a tutor for editing assistance, and he drastically re-writes your paper. You hand this into your teacher. This is...

• money well spent

• efficient

• academic honesty

• plagiarism

Your mother sits down with you to go over your paper. As she reads, she writes in some ideas and rewrites some of your sentences to make them sound better. You re-write the essay, using her words. This is...

• a loving parent

• plagiarism

• academic honesty

• great research

Your teacher has done a good job of teaching you how to cite your sources and has provided you with a detailed handout as a reference. However, you unintentionally paraphrase and/or you do not cite properly or provided a References page. Your teacher will:

• give you zero until you successfully complete an after school academic dishonesty class with the Teacher-Librarian, Ms. Gatti, and then allow you to redo the assignment

• allow you to redo the assignment if it is only a minor mistake

• give you a zero and not allow you to re-write the paper

• ignore it because you are a really good student