Plagiarism Review

Plagiarism involves copying something without giving credit.

• True

• False

Copying information and text from the Internet is not considered plagiarism.

• True

• False

It is not plagiarism if you copy the material yourself, in your own handwriting.

• True

• False

It is possible to plagiarize someone's ideas, even if you don't copy the person's words.

• True

• False

Plagiarism is a crime. Plagiarists can even go to jail.

• True

• False

By law, a person can be fined up to $50,000 for plagiarism.

• True

• False

In some cases, students who plagiarize can flunk class or be expelled from school.

• True

• False

Writing your name on a paper written by someone else and turning it in is wrong, but it is not plagiarism.

• True

• False

Forgetting to put quotation marks around words that someone else said or wrote is an honest mistake and not plagiarism.

• True

• False

When you copy material from another source, changing one or two words is enough to avoid plagiarism.

• True

• False