If I download something from the Internet and change a few words and phrases, I can use that information as my own for class assignments.

If I find a newspaper article on the Internet, I can use it in my work without reference because it is in an electronic form.

It is actually getting very easy for someone else to do an electronic search to find the sources of information I used from the Internet.

If someone said something in a lecture or on TV, I don’t have to cite it because it is not written.

It is acceptable to use text from Wikipedia in my paper without citation because it is anonymously edited, and it is difficult or impossible to find the author.

Paraphrasing is rewording someone else’s ideas or facts. It is acceptable to paraphrase in a paper as long as the source is cited.

If an article is anonymously written it still must be cited.

Paraphrasing information from the Internet and using it as my own work without citation is considered plagiarism.

If I am unsure about how to cite a source, I should consult a style manual to find the correct citation style.

Original Quote: “To be sure, Atlantic Africans made important contributions in forging the interconnected, mutually influencing entanglements of the Atlantic world; yet they were also ensnared by them—through slavery, through racism, through colonial subjectivity.”

This quote comes from page 305 of the following:

Sweet, J. H. (2009). Mistaken identities? Olaudah Equiano, Domnigos Álvares, and the methodological challenges of studying the African diaspora. American Historical Review, 114(2), 279-306.

Student paper excerpt: As one historian has written, people from Africa played an important role in creating the interconnectedness of the early modern Atlantic world even though they were often victims of slavery and racism.

Is this plagiarism?

Original Quote: “On April 12, while the Union fleet lay helpless offshore, the Confederates began bombarding Fort Sumter, and after thirty-four hours Anderson and his garrison were forced to surrender.”

This quote comes from page 292 of the following:

Donald, D. H. (1995). Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster. Student paper excerpt: The Confederates started the American Civil War in April 1861 when they bombarded Fort Sumter.

Is this plagiarism?

Original Quote: “In 1893, the city’s star rat catcher was Frederick Wegner, who arrived from Bavaria and made his name, first, by ridding Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and then Greenwood Cemetery of rats. When there was a rat infestation in the Central Park Zoo—the rumor was that the elephants had been attacked by rats—he was immediately called in and caught 475 rats in his first week; he used traps because the zookeeper was worried about poison around elephants.”

This quote comes from page 97-98 of the following:

Sullivan, R. (2004). Rats: observations on the history & habitat of the city’s most unwanted inhabitants. New York: Bloomsbury.

Student paper excerpt: The journalist Robert Sullivan (2004) has noted that New York City’s most successful rat catcher of the 1890s was a Bavarian immigrant named Frederick Wegner, who rid the Central Park Zoo of a major infestation without the use of poison (p. 97-8).

Is this plagiarism?

“Just as some advocates viewed Central Park as the future rendezvous of the polite world, so some enthusiasts imagined a zoological garden as a place for their socializing.… The private society’s projected zoo would be open to the public but closed to the general public on Sundays. (London’s Zoological Garden admitted only subscribers on Sundays, ‘the fashionable day’ to visit.) The Herald warned that ‘such class regulations’ ‘in favor of the wealthy few’ would not be tolerated in republican America.”

This quote comes from page 342 of the following:

Rosenzweig, R. & Blackmar, E. (1982). The park and the people: a history of Central Park. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Student paper excerpt: When Central Park was founded some advocates viewed the park as the future rendezvous of the polite world, and they wanted to restrict admission to the zoological garden to subscribers on Sundays (Google Books, 2009).

Is this plagiarism?

Original Quote: “Though no deed of sale exists, the event is generally accepted as having taken place. In a 1626 letter, a Dutch merchant reported he has just heard, from ship passengers newly disembarked from New Netherland, that representatives of the West India Company had ‘purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders.’ In 1846, using then current exchange rates, a New York historian converted this figure into twenty-four U.S. dollars.”

This quote comes from page xiv of the following:

Burrows, E. G. & Wallace, M. (1999). Gotham: A history of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press.

Student paper excerpt: The legend that Manhattan was purchased for twenty-four dollars does appear to have some historical evidence to support it. According to a Dutch merchant, the West India Company gave sixty guilders for the island.

Is this plagiarism?

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