WorksheetsWhose is it anyway? (Image and questions from CommonSense Media)
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is plagiarism?
Writing your own work and calling it your own
Someone else writing your own work and calling it yours
Copying someone else's work and calling it your own
Copying your work and calling it your own
Why is it important to provide citations for work you use?
To show you're a liar.
To give credit to the person who made it.
So other people think you wrote it.
So you get a good grade.
When is it okay to use someone else's words or ideas?
When you put their words in quotation marks and give a citation.
When you write the same thing they did and don't give a citation.
When you're in a hurry and don't have time to do the work.
When you include a citation, but don't put them into your own words.
Okay, or not okay?
David had basketball practice last night and didn't have time to do his homework. Justin offers to let him copy his, and sends it to David in an email.
Okay!
No Way!
Manny has to write a paragraph about water resources for science. He finds a paragraph on a website that is just right. Manny copies it in his own handwriting.
Okay!
No Way!
Susan copies a webpage into her book report and adds her own first sentence.
Okay!
No Way!
Ming spends a lot of time searching the Web. She finds a great drawing on a site. She prints it for the cover of her social studies report and gives credit to the illustrator in her report.
Okay!
No Way!
