Plagiarism

Plagiarism is

• quoting a source without citing it.

• stealing someone's intellectual property.

• passing off other people's work are your own.

• all of the above

Something that's common knowledge is

• learned only through research.

• known by most people.

• not widely known.

• not a true fact.

True or False: There are not usually serious consequences for plagiarism.

• True

• False

When you use an author's exact words in your paper, those words are called a

• source.

• citation.

• quotation.

• paraphrase.

To put a quote into your paper, you need

• a citation only.

• quotation marks only.

• quotation marks and a citation.

• neither quotation marks nor a citation.

Which of the following is not considered plagiarizing?

• asking your friend to give you an old paper he wrote so that you can copy it

• paraphrasing an author's ideas without giving them proper credit

• copying and pasting passages from online sources into your paper

• asking your brother to proofread your paper for you

Read the following passage from "This Land Was Made for You and Me: Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie" by Elizabeth Partridge:

In April 1944 Woody recorded "This Land is Your Land." When his good friend Pete Seeger heard the recording, he thought the song was one of Woody's weaker attempts. Too simple, thought Pete, an accomplished fold singer himself. Later he would say, "That shows how wrong you can be." Over the years he watched as "This Land is Your Land" went from "one guitar picker to another," gathering momentum as it made its way across America and out into the world. After Woody's death in 1967, the song kept steadily spreading.

Which of the following would not be considered common knowledge?

• Pete Seeger did not think "This Land is Your Land" was a great song.

• Woody Guthrie recorded "This Land is Your Land.".

• Woody Guthrie died in 1967.

• Pete Seeger was a singer.

If you plagiarize, it damages your

• bibliography

• academic integrity

• intellectual property

• common knowledge

One way to avoid plagiarizing is to

• always write down where your information comes from

• paraphrase while looking directly at the original source

• put direct quotes into your notes without quotation marks

• quote a paper you wrote previously in the paper you are writing now

True or False: Buying a paper on the internet is the only kind of plagiarism.

• True

• False