Plagiarism or Paraphrase?

What is plagiarism? (Check all that apply

• Borrowing an original idea and presenting it as a new idea.

• Changing a few words of a paragraph someone else wrote.

• Citing a source incorrectly.

• An act of fraud.

Original Source: “The amount of time females allocated to maintenance behaviors, including self-preening, preening nestlings, preening, and maintaining their nest, decreased by 30% in response to hikers” (Swarthout and Steidl 2003, p.312).

Student's Entry: The presence of hikers reduced female owls’ preening, of themselves, their young and their mates, and nest maintenance behaviors by over 25% (Swarthout and Steidl 2003).

• Yes, this is an example of plagiarism

• No, this is not an example of plagiarism

Original Source: “The amount of time females allocated to maintenance behaviors, including self-preening, preening nestlings, allopreening, and maintaining their nest, decreased by 30% in response to hikers” (Swarthout and Steidl 2003, p.312).

Student's Entry: The amount of time female owls dedicated to maintaining their nest, self-preening, allopreening and preening nestlings decreased 30% in response to hikers (Swarthout and Steidl 2003).

• Yes, this is an example of plagiarism

• No, this is not an example of plagiarism

Original Source: “The amount of time females allocated to maintenance behaviors, including self-preening, preening nestlings, allopreening, and maintaining their nest, decreased by 30% in response to hikers” (Swarthout and Steidl 2003, p.312).

Student's Entry: The amount of time female owls dedicated to maintaining their nest, self-preening, allopreening and preening nestlings decreased 30% in response to hikers (Swarthout and Steidl 2003).

• Yes, this is an example of plagiarism

• No, this is not an example of plagiarism

Is it acceptable to copy-and-paste a sentence written by someone else into your paper and simply add quotation marks around it?

• Yes, that shows it is not original text.

• No, that is an incomplete citation.

Which of the following constitutes proper paraphrasing?

• Put quotation marks around the text and cite it.

• Explain the text in your own words and cite it.

• Change a few words to make it your own and cite it.

• Use only the idea without citing it.