Plagiarism key vocabulary

The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

• Citation

• Bibliography

• Plagiarism

The primary reason to cite your sources is to avoid what?

• Confusion

• Plagiarism

What does plagiarize mean?

• to steal

• to see

• all of these

When you paraphrase

• give credit by citing the original source

• take a risk and don't cite it

• all of these

Chris wrote a book report in 5th grade. Now he is in 6th grade, and wants to reuse this report for another class.

Is this okay or not okay?

• Okay

• Not Okay

Emily is getting ideas for her math project from a website. She takes notes and lists the website name and information in her project when she turns it in.

Is this okay or not okay?

• Okay

• Not okay

Lee changed a few words in the sentence he copied for his report on flowers. He decided he did not have to give credit to the original author.

Is this okay or not okay?

• Okay

• Not Okay

You find a paper online that has all you need for your assignment. You decide to copy it and submit it as your work.

Is this plagiarism?

• YES

• NO

You and a friend decide to work together on a History assignment. You are in two different periods of the same class, but you decide to write the paper together. You each submit the paper as your own work.

Is this plagiarism?

• YES

• NO

I find a newspaper article on the Internet and I decide to use it in my work without citing it. Is this okay or not okay?

• Okay

• Not okay