Plagiarism

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

• Citation

• Plagiarism

• Bibliography

• Newton's Law

True or False: Material on the web is free for anyone to use.

• True

• False

Plagiarism and cheating are the same thing.

• Not really

• I don't know

• Always!

• Sometimes

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

• Give the website URL

• Put a star next to the information

• Put the author's name, the date of the article, and the title

• You don't have to list sources.

What is the one thing that does NOT have to be cited?

• Common knowledge - what you already know as fact

• Copy/Paste from a website

• Copy/Paste from an online book

• Typing out exact words from a text

True or False: Plagiarism is wrong because it deprives someone else of credit for their work.

• True

• False

When are you allowed to use the words or ideas of other people without giving them credit?

• Once

• Twice

• Sometimes

• Never!

If you copy and paste some of the text from a website...

• that is acceptable to use in your paper.

• that is a clear violation of plagiarism.

• that is sometimes acceptable to use in your paper.

• that is not a clear violation of plagiarism.

Plagiarizing someone's work is like...

• cheating off of them on a test.

• not cheating.

• acceptable in Science and Social Studies, but not in English.

• acceptable in all subjects.

If you use someone else's work, verbatim, that is plagiarism. What does verbatim mean?

• not exact words

• exact words - word for word

• to summarize information from someone else's work

• to condense information to a shorter format