Plagiarism: Test your knowledge!

What is Plagiarism?

• Using someone's words, ideas, or content and representing them as your own without giving credit to where they came from

• Only applies when you use someone's exact words . It is not plagiarism if you use "quotations" or if you rewrite their words.

• A medical condition that can lead to death

Spot the plagiarism! Which one of these is NOT an example of plagiarism?

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

• Borrowing an existing idea and presenting it as a new idea

• Translating others' written work into another language without citation

• None of these are examples of plagiarism

• Providing full source for a quotation

Which of these require citation?

• When I include my own ideas that are unique to the assignment I am writing

• When I refer to ideas from previous assignments I've written

• None of these require citation

• When using ideas that are considered common knowledge (i.e the largest human organ is skin)

What are possible consequences of plagiarism?

• There are no real consequences. Plagiarism isn't a big deal.

• Not receiving marks for an assignment or failing a course.

• Being sued or facing jail time

• Losing money or your reputation

True or False:

When using information from the public domain (i.e Facebook Group, Wikipedia, /reddit) it is not considered plagiarism because the material is crowd sourced

• True

• False