Plagiarism

What is plagiarism? Choose all that apply.

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• Writing and citing from a newspaper.

• Using someone else's words as your own

• Changing some words from an author that you want to use.

Teachers have web sites and computer programs that tell them if students have plagiarized or not.

• true

• false

It is not necessary to cite a summarized source as long as you don't quote verbatim from the text.

• True

• False

What do you use when you want to use a passage from the author and put it in your own words?

• summary

• paraphrase

• reported speech

Plagiarism is

• quoting a source without citing it.

• stealing someone's intellectual property.

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

• all of the above

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

• True

• False

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.

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.

If you plagiarize, it damages your

• bibliography.

• academic integrity.

• intellectual property.

• common knowledge.

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

• True

• False