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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
Your friend completed a course last year and gives you his paper. You re-type the whole thing, changing a few words here and there and adding in a few of your own thoughts. This is...
efficient
clever
academic honesty
academic dishonesty
It is the night before a research paper is due and you don’t have any work done. You buy a paper online. This is ...
efficient
plagiarism
a good way to spend your money
academic honesty
You quote a line from a very popular song in your essay and don’t cite it because everyone knows who sings it. This is...
plagiarism
not plagiarism
academic honesty
musical
You find a chart that will really strengthen one of the major points of your essay. You don’t cite it because it’s just a chart and they do not need to be cited. This is...
providing credibility to the person who created the chart
academic honesty
plagiarism
using facts
You copy a paragraph directly from an article you found. You cite the source but don’t use quotation marks. This is ...
not plagiarism
academic honesty
plagiarism
careless
You find an excellent idea in an article and you use it in your assignment. You don’t bother to cite the source because it is completely in your own words. This is...
great research
academic honesty
lazy
plagiarism
You find a short passage in a book and you change a few words so it’s different from the original. You carefully cite the source and include a References page. This is...
plagiarism
great research
academic honesty
poor research
You go to a tutor for editing assistance, and he drastically re-writes your paper. You hand this into your teacher. This is...
money well spent
efficient
academic honesty
plagiarism
Your mother sits down with you to go over your paper. As she reads, she writes in some ideas and rewrites some of your sentences to make them sound better. You re-write the essay, using her words. This is...
a loving parent
plagiarism
academic honesty
great research
Your teacher has done a good job of teaching you how to cite your sources and has provided you with a detailed handout as a reference. However, you unintentionally paraphrase and/or you do not cite properly or provided a References page. Your teacher will:
give you zero until you successfully complete an after school academic dishonesty class with the Teacher-Librarian, Ms. Gatti, and then allow you to redo the assignment
allow you to redo the assignment if it is only a minor mistake
give you a zero and not allow you to re-write the paper
ignore it because you are a really good student
