Plagiarism

Which of these answers count as plagiarism?

• Writing your own essay, then using spell check?

• Copying a paragraph but changing just a few words and giving a citation

• Both of the above

• None of the above

Answer explanation

The answer is (b) Copying a paragraph, but changing a few words and giving a citation.

This is plagiarism because you haven't changed the author's work enough.

No quotation marks, it means you have paraphrased the text. Just changing a few words isn't a paraphrase.

Cutting and pasting a short article from a website with no citation _______ (is / is not) plagiarism.

Answer explanation

This is plagiarism, because you don't give the author credit for their work

Taking two paragraphs from a classmate or tutor's essay, without citation is....​ (a)  

• plagiarism

• Not plagiarism

Taking a quotation from a source, giving a citation but not using quotation marks is

Using a paragraph from an essay you wrote and had marked in a previous semester, without citation

• Not plagiarism

• Plagiarism (even though its your own work!)

Which of the following options are plagiarism?

• Using something that you think of as general knowledge, e.g. the sky is blue

• Discussing your essay with classmates and stealing their awesome idea for your own essay

• Not writing a reference list

• both B and C

Which of the following is plagiarism?

• Getting someone else to write your essay

• Giving a citation but misspelling the author's name

• Using the results of your own research (e.g. a survey) without a citation

• All of the above

Taking a graph from a textbook, giving the source is

• not plagiarism

• plagiarism

Using an AI writing software like CHAT GPT or an online paraphrasing tool is

• plagiarism

• not plagiarism

• it depends on the situation

True or false: You don't need to write a reference list if you use in text citations

• True!

• False!

• It's optional

• My teacher won't mark it anyway......