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Plagiarism awareness

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name

Class

Date

The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

Citation

Bibliography

Plagiarism

Newton's Law

Plagiarism and cheating are the same thing.

Not really

Sometimes

I don't know

Always!

What do you need to do to properly cite your sources?

Give the Website URL

Put the author's/editor's/organisation's name and the date of the sources

Put a star next to the information

You don't have to list sources.

Plagiarism is wrong because it deprives someone else of due credit for their work.

TRUE

FALSE

Running out of time and forgetting to put all of your citations in the References is an acceptable excuse for plagiarism.

TRUE

FALSE

Failing to familiarize yourself with the University's policies regarding plagiarism is not an adequate defense for violation of those policies.

TRUE

FALSE

The primary reason to cite your sources is to avoid what?

A lawsuit

Plagiarism

A failing grade

Confusion

What is common knowledge?

Knowledge that the average person would know without having to look it up.

Knowledge that you would only know if you are in college.

Information that most people DO NOT know.

Does the following sentence need to be cited?
"A baby dog is called a puppy."

No, because it is common knowledge.

Yes, you have to cite all information.

Yes, because it is from a website.

I don't know.

10.

What kind of software is EndNote an example of?

Reference management software.

Productivity software.

Time management software.

Mathematical software.

11.

You take a sentence from a professional journal and reorder the phrases, keeping the meaning and most phrases intact. You do not cite your source.
Is this plagiarism?

YES

12.

Your roommate took the same math course last year that you are taking now. To save yourself some time, you copy your roommates old homework assignments and turn them in as your own.
Is this plagiarism?

YES

13.

You copy and paste text from a Web site into your paper and don't cite the original author because everyone knows that material on the Web is free for anyone to use.
Is this plagiarism?

YES

14.

I take a passage from one of my sources and rework the ideas into my own words so that I don't have to give the original source credit.
Is this plagiarism?

YES

15.

Forgetting to cite a source isn't plagiarism as long as you have the citation information in your notes.

TRUE

FALSE

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Plagiarism awareness

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 12mins

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