Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism

What is plagiarism according to the Oxford Dictionary?

• Taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as your own

• Sharing your work with others

• Citing all your sources correctly

• Using your own ideas in your work

What is an example of plagiarism?

• Changing a few words from an article and submitting it as your own

• Discussing ideas with a friend

• Citing all sources correctly

• Writing an original article

What could be a consequence of plagiarism in school?

• Being praised by teachers

• Receiving a scholarship

• Failing an assignment or class

• Getting a higher grade

What is one strategy to avoid plagiarism?

• Always cite your sources

• Copying text directly

• Ignoring the original author

• Using the same sentence structure

Why is it important to rewrite information in your own words?

• To make the text longer

• To use the same language as the source

• To avoid plagiarism and add originality

• To confuse the reader

Using someone else's work to help you without their permission is:

• Plagiarism

• Periodical

• Research

• Sight

All of the following are plagiarism EXCEPT

• buying a paper on the internet.

• turning in your friend's paper with your name on it.

• copying and pasting from the internet.

• using quotation marks and parenthetical citation to indicate the source of text on the internet.

Turning in someone else's work is plagiarism

• TRUE
• FALSE

Chris wrote a book report in 5th grade. Now he is in 6th grade, and wants to reuse this report for another class.
OKAY or NO WAY?

• Okay
• No Way

You take a sentence from a professional journal and reorder the phrases, keeping the meaning and most phrases intact. You do not cite your source.
Is this plagiarism?

• YES
• NO