Quiz: Is This Plagiarism?

To paraphrase properly, you need to:

• Change a few words in the text and cite it to make it your own

• Put quotation marks around the text and cite it

• Use only the idea from the text without citing it

• Summarize the main ideas in your own words and cite it

Which of the following requires a citation?

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

• When I refer to my own papers that I have previously written

• Both situations need a citation

• Neither situation needs a citation

If you copy a diagram from a website and provide the citation underneath, this is still plagiarism because you have copied the entire diagram and included it in your own paper.

• True

• False

If I write a paper for a class at OSU, I can reuse this paper in a future OSU class.

• True - it is my paper, I can reuse it any time

• False - this is academic misconduct

In the bibliography of your research paper, you can include references that you consulted but did not specifically use in your paper.

• True, because the references are relevant

• False: this is considered "padding" a bibliography

More than half of your essay is direct quotes. You added quotation marks, correctly cited your sources, and did a lot of reading. Is this plagiarism?

• Yes, because I relied too heavily on the words of others.

• No, because I have cited my sources correctly and referenced multiple sources.

Which of the following requires citation?

• Information from crowd-sourced sources like Wikipedia that are in the public domain

• Information that is common knowledge or widely accessible (e.g. the state tree of Ohio is the Buckeye)

• Both need citations

• Niether needs a citation

Ancient texts like Homer's Iliad or the Bible do not need to be cited.

• True: since the pre-date modern history, we do not cite them

• False: you must cite the specific edition/translation of the text