Plagiarism Middle School

What is Plagiarism?

• Borrowing someone else's words,  ideas, or works to help make your point.
• Presenting the words, ideas, or works of others and claiming them as your own.
• Using the words, ideas, or works of others to support your argument.
• Shoplifiting. 

What is a DIRECT QUOTE?

• Using the author's exact words.
• Only using someone else's words.
• Using the most important facts from an article.
• Putting something into your own words.

Putting someone's words into your own words is known as

• Quoting
• Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• Copying

Is it acceptable to copy-and-paste a sentence written by someone else into your paper and simply add quotation marks around it?

•  Yes, that shows it is not original text
• No, that is an incomplete citation

Is it necessary to cite information that is common knowledge or widely accessible, like historical information or popular scientific information, e.g. 70% of the earth is covered in water?

• Yes
• No

What can you do to avoid plagiarism?

• Cite your source at the end of a sentence
• Reference and rephrase others work
• Use quotation marks
• All of the above

If you put the information in your own words, so you still have to cite it?

• Yes
• No

You ask another student to write your paper for you, and you write your name at the top.

• This is plagiarism
• This is NOT plagiarism

Citing sources is an effective way to avoid plagiarism

• True
• False

In a source citation, the ____________ comes first.

• page number
• date
• author
• name of website