Everything You Need to Know about Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

• to use your own work.

• to paraphrase

• to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source

• to write original work

Damas copied a journal from Google Scholar and passed it off as his own paper without giving any credit or changing anything. What Damar did can be called as...

• Indirect Plagiarism

• Direct Plagiarism

Answer explanation

Direct Plagiarism is when you take someone else's work and pass it off as your own without changing anything.

Sri borrows some words for her essay without using any quotation marks (") or mentioning the source. What Sri does can be called...

• Paraphrasing

• Mozaic Plagiarism

Answer explanation

Mozaic Plagiarism is when we use some words from a source and mix it with our words, but we do not mention the sources and/or give any quotation marks.

Paraphrasing is when we express the meaning of a statement (spoken/written) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.

Lulu used some sources in her proposal but forgot to give any credits. What she did can be called...

• Self Plagiarism

• Accidental/Unintentional Plagiarism

Answer explanation

Unintentional/Accidental Plagiarism is when we use some sources in our work but forget to cite them properly and/or mention the credits.

Keanu copies his own previously published writings in another piece without proper citations. What Keanu does can be called...

• Misattribution

• Self-Plagiarism

Answer explanation

Self Plagiarism is when we copy our own previously published work without giving any citations/mentioning sources.

Teza cites other words in his paper and gives credits. However, he gives credit to the wrong sources. What Teza did can be called as

• Attribution

• Misattribution

Answer explanation

Misattribution is when you wrongly mention the source of a work that you copy/cite.

 

If you use someone else's statement, you need to ...

• summarize the work.

• not put them into quotation marks

• put them in quotation marks or you have to give credit to the author such as "According to World Book Encyclopedia, ...."

• do not put them into quotation marks

Is it necessary to cite information that is common knowledge or widely accessible, like historical information or popular scientific information, e.g. the sun rises from the east

• YES

• NO

You see something on Twitter and Facebook that you really like, so you:

• Copy-and-paste the post onto your own pages without giving any credits

• Give credit to the person you took it from