Avoiding Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?

• Using someone else's quotes

• Using someone else's ideas and citing them

• Presenting someone else's words or ideas as your own

• Having unoriginal material in your writing

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which is NOT a way to avoid plagiarism?

• Summarize

• Paraphrase

• Changing words in a quote

• Use direct quotes (with citations)

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When documenting one author in reference in a text, which is correct?

• This idea has already been argued (Ford 197).

• This idea has already been argued. (Irving Ford, 197)

• This idea has already been argued. (Ford 197)

• This idea has already been argued (Ford, 197).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When documenting one author by name in a text, which is correct?

• Ford has argued this point before (Ford 197).

• Ford has argued this point before. (197).

• Ford has argued this point before. (Ford, 197).

• Ford has argued this point before (197).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

True/False If you mention an author in the text, there's no need to cite their name as well.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When you are citing a text with more than three authors, you should

• Write each of their names in parentheses

• Use "et al" instead of writing author's names

• Use "et al" after the 3rd name

• Cite the title of the text

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

True/False When you use quotations in the text, you place the citation before the last quotation mark.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When quoting more than 4 lines (not sentences) of text, you should

• Use Block Quotes

• Cite the year as well as the author

• Only cite the title of the text

• Only cite the page number

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following is true about block quotes:

• The entire block quote is indented

• Only used when author is mentioned in the text

• Page number at end is outside the period

• Quotation marks are not used

• All of the above

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

How would you cite a direct quote from Herbert Rubella's History of Early Man that was on page 210?

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9