Plagiarism Quiz

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

• Citation
• Bibliography
• Plagiarism
• Newton's Law

Plagiarism can be accidental.

• True

• False

What do you use when you want to use a passage from the author and put it in your own words?

• summary

• paraphrase

• reported speech

Which of the following is plagiarism? (Check all that apply)

• Copying and pasting a sentence from an article into a research paper.

• Taking your friend's painting and saying you painted it.

• Singing a song at songwriter's open mic night that you heard at a talent show.

• Copying and pasting a sentence from an article and using it in a presentation with quotation marks and soures.

Emily is getting ideas for her pyramid project from a website. She takes notes and lists the website name and information in her project when she turns it in.
OKAY or NO WAY?

• Okay
• No Way

Chris wrote a book report in 5th grade. Now he is in 6th grade, and wants to reuse this report for another class.
OKAY or NO WAY?

• Okay
• No Way

Joe wrote a report about cats. He wrote this in his report:
Cats can have long hair or short hair, they can be lots of different colors, and "they can even have blue eyes," says Julia Nelson in her book called Cats are Amazing Animals.
OKAY or NO WAY?

• Okay
• No Way

Jill copied wolf images and sounds from another website into the mascot page of her school webpage.
OKAY or NO WAY?

• Okay
• No Way

Lee changed a few words in the sentence he copied for his report on bats. He decided he did not have to give credit to the original author. 
OKAY or NO WAY?

• Okay
• No Way

John is doing a report on George Washington. He writes that Washington was the 1st president. He believes this is common knowledge so he does not give credit to a source for this fact. 
OKAY or NO WAY?

• Okay
• No Way