plagiarism identification exercises

EXERCISES TOIDENTIFY PLAGIARISMDo you know if you have plagiarized someone’s words or ideas?

PRE-TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGEIS THE ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE?

PRE-TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGEIs the answer TRUE or FALSE?

1. Copying and pasting from the Internet can be done without citing the Internet page, because everything on the Internet is common knowledge and can be used without citation.

FALSE Web pages and other Internet sources are created by an author or authors so if you use something from the Internet, you have to cite it.

3. When you summarize a block of text from another work, citing the source at the end of your paper is sufficient.

When you summarize a block of text, you have to cite the source within your paper.FALSE

2. If you borrow someone's idea and use it in a paper, you don't have to cite it.

Any time you quote, paraphrase or summarize someone else's words or ideas, you have to cite them no matter what form e.g. lyrics, image, etc.FALSE

Reference: University Libraries' "Plagiarism Pre-Test"

PRE-TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE cont’dIs the answer TRUE or FALSE?

4. If you quote your roommate in an interview, you don't have to cite him/her or use quotation marks.

FALSECiting a conversation is not different from citing an article or a book. Whenever you quote someone's words, whether they're printed, spoken or sung, you have to cite them.

5. You don't have to quote famous proverbs because they're common knowledge.

Proverbs are common knowledge, and therefore don't have to be cited.

6. Using a few phrases from an article and mixing them in with your own words is not plagiarism.

FALSEUsing someone else's words without acknowledging who wrote them--even when you blend those phrases with your own--is plagiarism.

TRUE


PRE-TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE cont’dIs the answer TRUE or FALSE?

8. If you come across the phrase "era of error" and use it in your paper, you should cite it.

Whether it's two words or ten, you have to credit your source any time you use someone else's words.

9. You can submit a paper you wrote for another course in the past.

You are literally stealing from yourself, known as self-plagiarism. You can build on previous work, but it is dishonest to submit the same work for credit twice.

TRUE

FALSE

7. You don't have to use quotation marks when you quote an author as long as you cite the author's name at the end of the paragraph.

Whenever you quote someone else's words you have to designate what they say by using quotation marks to show that you've borrowed it and to set it apart from your own writing.

FALSE


IDENTIFICATION PRACTICEIS IT PLAGIARISM?

IDENTIFICATION PRACTICEIs It Plagiarism?

You read:“Nineteen percent of full-time freshmen say they spend only 1 to 5 hours per week preparing for classes…”

From: Young, Jeffrey R. Homework? What Homework? Chronicle of Higher Education, 49 (15).12/6/2002.

You write:Nineteen percent of full-time freshmen say they spend only 1 to 5 hours per week preparing for classes.

YES! Need to use quotes and cite source.

Reference: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

You read:"Students are studying about one-third as much as faculty say they ought to, to do well," said George D. Kuh, director of the survey and a professor of higher education at Indiana University at Bloomington.

From: Young, Jeffrey R. Homework? What Homework? Chronicle of Higher Education, 49 (15).12/6/2002

You write:Most students spend about one-third as much time studying as faculty say they should.

YES! Must credit source if paraphrasing text.



You read:"Students are studying about one-third as much as faculty say they ought to, to do well," said George D. Kuh, director of the survey and a professor of higher education at Indiana University at Bloomington.


You write:According to George D. Kuh, Indiana University at Bloomington, students study about one-third of the time that is expected by faculty. (Young, 2002)

NO! As long as, the Young article is included in your reference list, and you have properly cited the source.



You read:“The tip given most consistently by professors and college officials is that students should simply do their homework. The most commonly prescribed amount is at least two hours of class preparation for every hour spent in the classroom…”


You write:College students should do their homework.

NO! Commonly known facts or ideas do not have to be cited, if this information is found in at least 5 sources.



You find: Your title page:

Gray wolf (Canis lupus).© Jeff Lepore/Photo Researchers Wolf. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 31, 2004, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online.<http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=79400>

YES! Must credit source of images and other media.

Should we or shouldn’t we protect the gray wolf?By Ima Lamb

Eng 110Apr. 1, 2004



http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=79400

You read:If the existence of a signing ape was unsettling for linguists, it was also startling news for animal behaviorists.

From: Davis, F. (1978) Eloquent Animals. New York: Putnam Pub Group.

You write:The existence of a signing ape was unsettling for linguists, and was also startling news for animal behaviorists.

From: Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook for Writers. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

YES! Need quotation marks around words from source, and reference in brackets with page number.

Reference: Christian Brothers University




You write:The existence of a signing ape unsettled linguists and startled animal behaviorists (Davis, 26).


YES! The source was cited and paraphrasing was attempted, but the writer’s words are not his own.





You write:If the presence of a sign-language-using chimp was disturbing for scientists studying language, it was also surprising to scientists studying animal behavior (Davis, 26).


YES! Source is cited and synonyms are substituted, but source’s sentence structure is unchanged.





You write:According to Flora Davis, linguists and animal behaviorists were unprepared for the news that a chimp could communicate with its trainers through sign language (Davis, 26).


NO! Original was properly paraphrased and source was referenced. No parenthetical citation required.





You write:When they learned of an ape's ability to use sign language, both linguists and animal behaviorists were taken by surprise (Davis 26).


NO! Original was properly paraphrased and source was referenced.



REFERENCES

• Christian Brothers University. What is plagiarism? (And why you should care!). Retrieved from http://www.cbu.edu/

• The University of Southern Mississippi, ' University Libraries’ "Plagiarism Pre-Test“. Retrieved from http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/plagiarismtutorial.php– adapted from Robert A. Harris's book The Plagiarism Handbook :

Strategies for Preventing, Detecting, and Dealing with Plagiarism, Los Angeles, CA : Pyrczak Publishing, 2001.

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. “Is it Plagiarism? [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://www.uwec.edu/

http://www.cbu.edu/

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/plagiarismtutorial.php

http://www.uwec.edu/

http://www.uwec.edu/

FOR ADDITIONAL HELP OR PRACTICE

•If you are still uncertain about how to properly cite sources of information, you can ask for assistance from: Your Teachers Library and Media

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