What Do You Know about Plagiarism

True or False: A person can get in trouble for plagiarizing only if the person intended to plagiarize.

• True

• False

What is plagiarism?

• If you put someone else's ideas into your own words and then pass those off as your own.

• Any ideas represented as the student’s own which have been copied from another source or paraphrased without citing.

• Failing to properly cite one's sources.

• All of the above.

Your ideas are your intellectual ________.

• knowledge

• plagiarism

• property

• none of the above

It is ok to think that because it's on the Internet, it belongs to everyone.

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• 

Which of the following are ways that you can avoid plagiarism:

• Learn how to cite sources, paraphrase, and

  summarize.

• Turn in original work, even if it's not

  perfect.

• Don't forget to make notes of the sources you

  have used.

• Understand that everything we know is

  because of others so credit should be given.

True or False: Changing every third or fourth word in a paragraph makes a good summary.

• True

• False

It is never ok to copy and ___________ words from an article into one's own paper and turn it in.