Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?

• Presenting someone else's words or ideas and not giving them credit

• Presenting the words, ideas, or works of others and claiming them as your own.
• Pulling together pieces of information from MULTIPLE sources and not giving them credit.

• Shoplifiting. 

What is a DIRECT QUOTE?

• Using the author's exact words.
• Only using someone else's words.
• Putting something into your own words.

Putting someone's words into your own words is known as

• Quoting
• Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• Copying

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

Is it acceptable to copy-and-paste a sentence written by someone else into your paper and simply add quotation marks around it?

•  Yes, that shows it is not original text
• No, that is an incomplete citation

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Is it necessary to cite information that is common knowledge or widely accessible, like historical information or popular scientific information, e.g. 70% of the earth is covered in water?

• Yes
• No

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

What can you do to avoid plagiarism?

• Cite your source within the sentence.

• Paraphrase (put things in your own words)

• Use quotation marks and cite the source.

• All of the above

If you paraphrase the information into your own words and ideas, do you still have to cite it?

• Yes
• No

You ask another student to write your paper for you, and you write your name at the top.

• This is plagiarism
• This is NOT plagiarism

Citing sources is an effective way to avoid plagiarism

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

In a source citation, the ____________ comes first.

• page number
• date
• author
• name of website

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2B