Understaning Plagiarism

Combining text and ideas from different sources without citation is called

• Mosaic plagiarism

• Self plagiarism

• Global plagiarism

• Paraphrasing plagiarism

Which of the choices below describes global plagiarism?

• Directly copying a passage of text without citation.

• Presenting an entire text by someone else as your own work

• Rephrasing someone else’s ideas without citation.

• Failing to give all the necessary information in your source citation

Reusing passages and ideas from your own previously submitted work is called

• Mosaic Plagiarism

• Global Plagiarism

• Verbatim Plagiarism

• Self- Plagiarism

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

• Citation
• Bibliography
• Plagiarism
• Newton's Law

You are asked to summarize the plot of a chapter. You copy the chapter description from the online Spark Notes Web site and don't cite your source.
Is this plagiarism?

• YES
• NO

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 You do not cite your source.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?

• YES
• NO

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

• YES
• NO

Material on the Web is free for anyone to use.

• TRUE
• FALSE

In class you have been assigned to groups and given lab assignments to complete. 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 plagiarism?

• YES
• NO

I take a passage from one of my sources and rework the ideas into my own words so that I don't have to give the original source credit.
Is this plagiarism?

• YES
• NO