Plagiarism & Research Ethic

Tick the two correct answers:

• Plagiarism is presenting someone else's theories, thoughts or idea as your own.

• Plagiarism is using another persons words without proper citation

• Plagiarism is presenting your own work, properly referenced, with academic integrity.

• Plagiarism is using or quoting someone else's work to help write your assignment, with citations.

Is it possible to unintentionally plagiarise?

• Yes

• No

Tick all that apply. Unintentional plagiarism could be;

• trying to rewrite in your own words without citation

• forgetting a citation

• paraphrasing another work without citation

• not putting quotation marks around a quotation

Tick all correct answers: Intentional plagiarism is...

• Trying to pass off work as your own when it is not yours

• Constructing an essay from multiple sources but none of the words are your own

• Copying and pasting without quotation or citation

• Trying to make yourself look clever with a new theory that isn't yours

Another important way to avoid plagiarism is to use (a)   and a bibliography

Plagiarism software such as Turnitin can

• match every source you use

• not match your work to another student

• match every digitised source you use

• match your work to physical newspapers

Original ideas are considered

• bogus

• intellectual property

• public

• knowledge

Copying from which of these is plagiarism

• Encyclopedias

• video or audio

• web sites

• your own work

Which of the following make plagiarism tempting?

• deadlines

• poor planning/time management

• assignments feeling overwhelming

• everyone is doing it

Citations should include

• information about the author

• name and location of the publisher

• title of the work

• date your copy was published