Informative Vocabulary

What does it mean to plagiarize?

• Using someone else's work, ideas, or words without giving them credit

• Creating original work without referencing any sources
• Copying someone else's work with their permission
• Using someone else's work and giving them proper credit

What does it mean to paraphrase?

• Ignoring someone else's ideas and using your own words
• Summarizing someone else's ideas without changing the meaning
• Copying someone else's ideas word for word
• Restating someone else's ideas in your own words without changing the meaning.

What does it mean to cite a source?

• Copying someone else's work without permission
• Ignoring the original source of information
• Using information without acknowledging the source
• Giving credit to the original author of the information being used.

What does credible mean?

• Trustworthy or believable

• Untrustworthy
• Related to topic

• Unreliable

What does relevant mean?

• Unrelated or inappropriate
• Irrelevant or appropriate
• Closely related or appropriate

• Distantly connected or inappropriate

When you are researching, what is a source?

• Where you find information used in research, such as a book, article, website, or person.

• Something you like to read

• Google

• The internet

What does it mean to verify information?

• To believe it is true

• To check to see if other sources agree

• To ask your friend what he thinks

• To already know the information