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...

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 ...

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...

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...

You copy a paragraph directly from an article you found. You cite the source but don’t use quotation marks. This is ...