Plagiarism and Cheating

You are asked to summarize the plot of a chapter from Madame Bovary. You copy the chapter description from the online Spark Notes Web site and don't cite your source. Is this plagiarism?

• Yes

• No

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 You do not cite your source.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

You find a paper online that answers your assignment instructions exactly and submit it as your work. Is this plagiarism?

• Yes

• No

You copy another author's ideas to compare and contrast with your own ideas. You indent the text, identify the author, and use quotation marks when stating the author's ideas. You also provide a citation of the work you copied in the bibliography of your paper. Is this plagiarism?

• Yes

• No

You copy and paste text from a Web site into your paper and don't cite the original author because everyone knows that material on the Web is free for anyone to use. Is this plagiarism?

• Yes

• No

Your friend in Biology class has been sick for a week and is behind with her work. You feel sorry for her and offer to help her with the assignment that is due tomorrow. After reviewing your class notes with her, you lend her your report to copy. Is this considered cheating?

• Yes

• No

If I take a passage from one of my sources and rework the ideas into my own words I don't have to give the original source credit.

• True

• False

Plagiarism is wrong because it deprives someone else of due credit for their work.

• True

• False

An acceptable excuse for committing plagiarism is that you ran out of time and forgot to put all of your citations in the bibliography.

• True

• False

Forgetting to cite a source isn't plagiarism as long as you have the citation information in your notes.

• True

• False