Plagiarism & MLA Citation

True or false: Plagiarism is taking someone else’s work and submitting it as your own.

• True

• False

Plagiarism is a form of:

• Lying

• Integrity

• Theft

• Cheating

If you plagiarize an assignment, you will receive:

• A new car

• A round of applause

• A gold star and a lollipop

• Zero credit on the assignment and a referral

Plagiarism occurs when:

• You give credit to an original source.

• You do NOT give credit to an original source.

How do you give credit to an original source?

• Use citations.

• Submit the author's ideas as your own without acknowledging his or her work.

True or false: If your paraphrase an author's ideas, you still need a citation.

• True

• False

True or false: If you use a direct quote, you must place quotation marks around the quote and cite it.

• True

• False

If I reference the author/text in the sentence, then I do not need a further in-text citation for MLA, for example (McGlynn 23).

• True

• False

• It depends. If there is a page number I should cite it, for example (23).

Which are steps that can be taken to avoid plagiarism?

• Paraphrasing (using your own words to describe an author's idea).

• Citing relevant info and direct quotes.

• Copying and pasting someone else's work, and submitting it as your own.

• Use online tools to help you create citations (e.g., OWL Purdue).

Answer explanation

OWL Purdue is our go-to source for MLA citations and formatting.

True or false: Internet sources do not need to be cited.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

All sources (e.g., books, articles, internet sources, magazines, etc.) need to be cited.