Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

• to use your own research to write an essay.

• the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas & passing them off as one's own.

• to paraphrase information found during your research

• to write original work

How can you give credit to the author when writing a research essay? (choose two)

• Do not state where you got the information.

• Write the information directly into your paper.

• By beginning the sentence with, "According to ....."

• to attribute to the author or institution by citing in MLA format

What does "paraphrase" mean?

• a statement that says something that another person has said or written in a different way.

• Copying information directly into your essay.

• Writing information exactly from a resource without giving credit where you received the information.

• a statement that says something that another person has said or written in the exact way.

When are you allowed to use the words or ideas of other people without giving them credit?

• once

• twice

• sometimes

• never

Does the rule of plagiarism apply to all subjects?

• YES!

• NO

• sometimes

• hardly ever applies to all subjects

When you are writing a research essay for this course remember...

• you can sometimes use the words or ideas of other people without giving them credit.

• you're never allowed to use the words or ideas of other people without giving them credit.

If you copy and paste some of the text from a website...

• that is acceptable to use in your essay

• that is sometimes acceptable to use in your essay.

• that is a clear violation of plagiarism.

• that is not a clear violation of plagiarism.

Plagiarizing someone's work is like ....

• not cheating.

• acceptable in Science and Social Studies but not English.

• cheating off of them on a test.

• acceptable in all subjects.

If you use someone esle's work, verbatim, that is plagiarism. What does verbatim mean?

• in not exact words

• to summarize information from someone esle's work

• in the exact words : word for word

• to condense information to a shorter format

If you use someone esle's words verbatim, you need to ...

• summarize the work.

• do not put them into quotation marks

• 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, ...."