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 You do not cite your source.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?

You find a paper online that answers your assignment instructions exactly and submit it as your work. Is this plagiarism?

You and a friend decide to work together on a lab assignment. Because you are in two different sections of the same course, you print out two copies of the completed report, and each submit it as your own individual work. Is this plagiarism?

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

You copy another author's ideas to compare and contrast with your own ideas. You indent the text, identify the author, and use quotation marks when stating the author's ideas. You also provide a citation of the work you copied in the bibliography of your paper. Is this plagiarism?

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?

For your Geology class you have been assigned to groups and given lab assignments to complete as a group. Your group completes the lab and you each turn in a copy of the same lab report with your individual name at the top of the page and your lab-mates names listed in the first paragraph. Is this cheating?

Your friend in Biology class has been sick for a week and is behind with her work. You feel sorry for her and offer to help her with the assignment that is due tomorrow. After reviewing your class notes with her, you lend her your report to copy. Is this considered cheating?

Von had basketball practice last night and did not have time to do his business course reaction paper. Lyn offers to let him copy her and sends it to Von in e-mail. Is this cheating?

If I take a passage from one of my sources and rework the ideas into my own words, then I don't have to give the original source credit.

Using an online translation service or engine is an acceptable way to complete my French composition.

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

An acceptable excuse for committing plagiarism is that you ran out of time and forgot to put all of your citations in the bibliography.

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

Failing to familiarize yourself with the university's policies does not constitute an adequate defense for a violation of those policies.

Danielle writes an essay that she worked very hard on and sends it off to an academic journal after she finishes it.  The journal sends her comments on the essay, including one that claims her research has already been done and that she cannot publish her work, because another person already has.  If she does publish it, then she commits a copyright violation.

Giselle is writing an essay and decides that she needs some sources that she cannot find.  Because no one will get hurt if she makes up some sources and their contents, she does so and uses those fictional sources in her essay, which makes her, commit a form of academic dishonesty.

Luis has to write a paragraph about water resources for Field Biology.  He finds a paragraph on a web site that is just right.  Since Luis copies it in his own handwriting, he did not commit any form of academic dishonesty.

Marco decides that his sister’s blog has some good information on it, so he asked permission and borrows some for use in his own blog.  As Marco did not bother to cite her sister, this is obviously a form of academic dishonesty.