Understanding Plagiarism and Citation

Is copying information you find online and using it as your own work every okay to do?

• No—it is always wrong because it is theft and fraud.

• Sometimes it is okay, as long as you change the words into your own.

• Yes—if the information is online it is okay to copy it.

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Which of the following is NOT an example of plagiarism?

• Changing a few words of a paragraph someone else wrote to make it a little different before turning it in.

• Borrowing an existing idea and submitting it as a new idea.

• Providing the full source name for a quote or for information used in an assignment.

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True or False—Adding quotation marks around a sentence or several sentences written by someone else is enough to show it came from another source.

• True

• False

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True or False—If you intended to cite a source in a written assignment but forget to, that is still considered plagiarism.

• True

• False

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True or False—Plagiarism is only a major concern in school and education, but not in careers, jobs, or online in general.

• True

• False

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True or False—Even if no one is really harmed by plagiarism in school assignments, it is still unethical.

• True

• False

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True or False—If I reuse an essay I used in another class, it is not plagiarism because it’s my own work.

• True

• False

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Which of the following requires proper citation of the source?

• When using information that is considered common knowledge (for example, the sky is blue, or most of the Earth’s surface is water).

• When using information from a crowd-sourced website, like Wikipedia.

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Paraphrasing is when a person uses information from another source but puts it into their own words. When you are paraphrasing in a writing assignment, you need to:

• Change just a few words so it is a little different, then cite the source.

• Put quotation marks around the paraphrase, then cite the source.

• Change all the words, then no citation is needed.

• Summarize the text in our own words, then cite the source.

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Let’s say you found two online sources with information and research about the same topic. Source A is the original source of the information, Source B is an article that references the information from Source A. You decide to use a quote from Source B—which source do you cite in your assignment?

Answer options:

• 1. Only Source A

• Only Source B

• Both Source A and Source B

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