Senior Seminar Plagiarism quiz
Which of the following are good ways to avoid plagiarism?
All of the above are good ideas
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You are describing a theory associated with a particular writer and cite the author.
false
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You are providing a rationale for siding with one side of an issue and do not use a citation.
false
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You do not provide a citation when stating or summarizing obvious facts, facts which are unlikely to provoke any significant amount of disagreement in your field or community.
false
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You are giving emphasis to a particular idea that has found a measure of agreement and support among commentators and do not use a citation.
true
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You are paraphrasing (in your own words) another person's work that you feel is particularly significant and likely to be a subject of debate. You do not provide a reference because you paraphrased.
true
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You are reading a book that includes an interesting idea but the source of the idea is cited to another author. You cite the second author, not the author of the book.
true
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You copy and paste from the internet and no author's name is shown so you just cite the web address.
true
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You find a useful table on the internet and copy and paste it directly into your assignment without a citation.
true
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You read a range of interesting summaries of different approaches to a subject on a number of internet sites. You do not copy and paste, but you paraphrase in your own words and put the summaries in your assignment. You do not mention the website sources in your assignment.
true
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You read a sentence in a journal article and decide you'd like to paraphrase it for the paper you are writing. Sticking to the "fewer than 5 words" rule, you change exactly five words in the sentence and keep the same sentence structure in the new sentence.
true
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You read a sentence in a journal article and decide you'd like to paraphrase it for the paper you are writing. You change most of the words in the sentence but keep the same sentence structure.
true
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You see a quotation on an internet page without an author. You change a quite few words in the quote and put in your assignment without a citation.
true
True or false. The following is an example of plagiarism: You see some something on an internet site, an article from a named journal with a named author. You paraphrase from the site into your assignment, and cite the journal article.
true
True or false: It is academically dishonest to turn in the same work for credit in more than one class.
true
