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What is Plagiarism? (Check all that apply)
Citing a source incorrectly
Changing a few words of a paragraph someone else wrote
Borrowing an original idea and presenting it as a new idea
Translating others’ written work into another language without citation
Using material without crediting the sources
Is it acceptable to copy-and-paste a sentence written by someone else into your paper and simply add quotation marks around it?
Yes, that shows it is not original text
No, that is incomplete citation
Paraphrasing properly is to:
Change a few words to make it your own and cite it
Put quotation marks around the text and cite it
Use only the idea without citing it
Summarize the text in your own words and cite it
You re-use paragraphs from a paper you wrote last semester and put it into a new assignment, and you don’t cite it because it’s your own work. Is this plagiarism?
Yes, it is self-plagiarism.
No, it isn’t plagiarism.
A source doesn’t need to be cited if it’s collaboratively written on the web like Wikipedia.
True
False
Is it necessary to cite information that is common knowledge or widely accessible, like historical information or popular scientific information, e.g. 70% of the earth is covered in water?
Yes
No
You see something on Twitter and Facebook that you really like, so you:
Copy-and-paste the post onto your own pages
Give credit to the person you took it from
Say you found two papers about the same research: Paper A is the original finding; Paper B is an analysis that references Paper A. You use a section of the analysis from Paper B. Which paper do you cite?
Paper A
Paper B
Both
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