Is It Plagiarism

Plagiarism is

• quoting a source without citing it.

• stealing someone's intellectual property.

• passing off other people's work as your own.

• all of the above

Something that's common knowledge is

• learned only through research.

• known by most people.

• not widely known.

• not a true fact.

True or False: There are not usually serious consequences for plagiarism.

• True

• False

When you use an author's exact words in your paper, those words are called a

• source.

• citation.

• quotation.

• paraphrase.

To put a quote into your paper, you need

• a citation only.

• quotation marks only.

• quotation marks and a citation.

• neither quotation marks nor a citation.

Which of the following is not considered plagiarizing?

• asking your friend to give you an old paper he wrote so that you can copy it

• paraphrasing an author's ideas without giving them proper credit

• copying and pasting passages from online sources into your paper

• asking your brother to proofread your paper for you.

If you plagiarize, it damages your

• bibliography.

• academic integrity.

• intellectual property.

• common knowledge.

One way to avoid plagiarizing is to

• always write down where your information comes from

• paraphrase while looking directly at the original source.

• put direct quotes into your notes without quotation marks.

• quote a paper you wrote previously in the paper you are writing now.

True or False: Buying a paper on the internet is a kind of plagiarism.

• True

• False

A restatement, in your own words, of a passage of text is called a

• source.

• citation.

• quotation.

• paraphrase.