Avoid plagiarism

Copying a paragraph but changing a few words, not giving a citation.

• YES

• NO

Cutting and pasting a short article from a website, with no citation.

• YES

• NO

Taking two paragraphs from a classmate’s essay, without citation.

• YES

• NO

Taking a graph from a textbook, giving the source.

• YES

• NO

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

• YES

• NO

Using something that you think of as general knowledge.

• YES

• NO

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

• YES

• NO

Using the results of your own unpublished research (e.g. from a survey you did) without citation.

• YES

• NO

Discussing an essay topic with a group of classmates and using some of their ideas in your own work.

• YES

• NO

• CAN BE YES OR NO

Giving a citation for some information but misspelling the author’s name.

• YES

• NO