Avoiding Plagiarism

Objectives:

  1. Explore academic integrity.
  2. Identify both intentional and unintentional plagiarism and how to avoid it.

 

Avoiding Plagiarism is Easy!

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 Is it Plagiarism?

 Test Yourself: Is it Plagiariam?

Value: 1
You're working on a homework assignment about dolphins. You search Google and find a good description of how they communicate. Using your computer, you copy and paste it directly into your paper. The web page does not list an author or publication date, and the passage is pretty short anyway, so you don't bother to cite it.
 
 
 

 Test Yourself: Is it Plagiarism?

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You receive your assignment for a class, and realize that you can write your paper on the same topic that you wrote on for another class last semester. Because of the requirements of the assignment, the focus of the paper will be different, but you can use many of the same sources you already read just two months ago.
 
 
 

 Test Yourself: Is it Plagiarism?

Value: 1
You are doing a presentation for your ENG101 class and use an image of the Food Guide Pyramid you found on a government web site.  You do not cite where you found the image.
 
 
 

 Test Yourself: Is it Plagiarism?

Value: 1
You're writing an ENG101 paper on baseball.  You're a huge baseball fan, and you've read a lot of books about baseball. As a result, you have a lot of historical facts and statistics memorized, but you're not sure where you originally learned most of them.  You suspect that you know more about baseball than most people do, and you're not sure if your knowledge is really "common." But since you don't know where the information originally came from and it would be a huge amount of work to figure it out, you don't cite specific sources.
 
 
 

 Test Yourself: Is it Plagiarism?

Value: 1
While doing research, you take notes. Sometimes you paraphrase or summarize the material but other times you use the exact same wording. When you write your paper, you forget that some of your notes may be directly taken from the original and use them in your paper without quotation or citing.
 
 
 

 

 

 

 


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