Types of Plagiarism

Jordan’s English 9 class assigned a persuasive paper and he was really happy to get an “A” because he worked so hard on it. Later that year, in his Journalism class Jordan was assigned an opinion paper to write and so he submitted the same paper he wrote for English 9

• Copy & Paste

• Find & Replace

• Reuse

• Improper Citing/Ghost Citing

• Purchasing

Tanya is super stressed out with her classes because final exams are right around the corner and she’s been working extra hours at her job. Her History teacher assigns her a historical analysis paper so she buys one from TermPapersRus.com

• Copy & Paste

• Find & Replace

• Reuse

• Improper Citing/Ghost Citing

• Purchasing

Sophie and Isabell are in just about every class with each other. They’re both really hard workers and always get good grades so they like to partner-up on projects. In Biology and Economics they have projects coming up soon and they’re partners for both. They decide that Sophie will do the Biology project and Isabell will do the Economics project and each will put both names on the projects.

• Copy & Paste

• Find & Replace

• Reuse

• Sharing Work

• Purchasing

Diego knows copying and pasting work is cheating, so he decides to use a thesaurus to change some of the words.

• Purchasing

• Find & Replace

• Reuse

• Improper Citing/Ghost Citing

• Copy & Paste

Jay’s English teacher assigns a paper in which he is to compare and contrast two characters that were in a novel he just read. He needs help with this answer so he searches it up on the internet and finds a blog post. Since Jay agrees with everything the blogger wrote, and he looked it up on the internet, he decides to just paste the blogger posted.

• Purchasing

• Find & Replace

• Reuse

• Improper Citing/Ghost Citing

• Copy & Paste

After working for weeks on his Art History paper, Eddie puts together his works-cited page but realizes that he forgot to do the in-context citation too. To save time, he inserts the citations throughout the paper but doesn’t check to make sure they match.

• Purchasing

• Find & Replace

• Reuse

• Improper Citing/Ghost Citing

• Copy & Paste

Which is an example of Improper Citing/Ghost Citing?

• Rewording that includes proper in-text citation and attribution but relies too heavily on the source’s original.

• Word-for-word copy of another’s work without giving credit to the source.

• Includes sources that don’t exist or are inaccurate; misrepresentation of source.

• Using a paper assigned in one class as a paper for a different class.

Which is an example of Find & Replace?

• A paper that doesn't use in-context citation and changes just a few words or phrases from the original work.

• Word-for-word copy of another’s work without giving credit to the source

• Taking material from multiple sources without crediting any of them.

• Borrowing from your own prior work without telling the reader that you are doing so.

Which is an example of Copy & Paste?

• Beef stew

• Combines properly cited material with plagiarized material in an effort to persuade the reader that all material must be properly sourced.

• Word-for-word copy of another’s work without giving credit to the source

• Includes sources that don’t exist or are inaccurate; misrepresentation of source

______________ occurs when one takes credit for an idea that was not theirs.

• Plague

• Plagues

• Plagiarism

• Plaque