Decoding Plagiarism

Which of the following does not represent plagiarism?

• Borrowing an idea from an article you've read and presenting it as your own.

• Submitting the same piece of work as coursework for two different classes.

• Translating an article from another language into English without citation.

• Providing the full source for a quotation which is presented within inverted commas / single inverted commas

It is acceptable to copy-and-paste a sentence from an article and add quotation marks to it.

• True

• False

Plagiarism is only possible when you intend to deceive your reader.

• False

• True

Which of the following requires proper citation?

• I include my own ideas in the paper I submit as coursework. These ideas are original and I have not presented them elsewhere.

• I include my own ideas in the paper I submit as coursework. Some of these ideas were developed in papers that I previously submitted as coursework although they have not been published elsewhere.

• None of the above

My essay includes the sentence 'The United Kingdom is no longer a member of the European Union'. To cite this properly I need to include a footnote.

• True

• False

Paraphrasing means

• Using the idea from the text without citing it. The actual text is not used otherwise.

• Summarising the main idea in the text in your own words and citing it in full.

• Presenting the quotation in quotation marks (" " or ' ') and citing it in full.

• Substituting some of the words in the original text and citing it to present it as one's own.