Plagiarism

What is the best definition of plagiarism?

• Purposely copying someone else's words without giving them credit

• Using another person's ideas, words, or other original work without giving them proper credit

• Copying someone else's words, ideas, or other original work even if you give them credit

Quoting directly from a source is okay if you...

• Put the words in quotation marks and cite the source of information

• Tell your friend

• Use cut and paste

When you put the words of others into your own words, you are doing what?

• Citing

• Plagiarizing

• Paraphrasing

A citation is not required when...

• Using your own thoughts or ideas

• Reporting a little known fact

• Using other people's words

True or False: It is plagiarism when you change a few words in a passage and replace them with your own, and properly cite the passage.

• True

• False

True or False: It is plagiarism when you copy/paste large portions of text from the internet, but you cite the author and date thoroughly throughout your project.

• True

• False

True or False: It is plagiarism when you turn in your brother's or sister's project they did for another teacher as your own.

• True

• False

True or False: It is plagiarism when you use a few sentences word for word from an article and combine those sentences in with your own words and do not cite the author.

• True

• False