CBI - Quiz 6

You are writing a research paper on marketing strategies. You have cut and pasted a lot of information from articles you found on web sites and databases into a Word file on your computer. While writing your essay, you find yourself patching together pieces from different sources, and you have occasionally lost track of which ideas were your own and which were from various articles and websites. You consider going back to the original sources but the prospect is daunting. In any case, you figure that if your professor queries your sources, since you didn't intentionally plagiarize, this will result in a lesser punishment.

A) Disagree

You are writing a paper for Marketing Management and you have included information that you read in your textbook. You aren't sure if this information can be considered common knowledge, or whether you need to cite it. You:

C) Cite all the information you've gleaned from the textbook, whether quoted verbatim or summarized.

Last semester you wrote a research paper on micro-finance for a course in International Community Development. This semester you are taking a course in Economics and your professor has assigned a paper topic on any topic within the general subject area of economics. It would be very easy for you to re-tool whole sections of your first paper to satisfy the requirements of the second. It is acceptable practice to re-submit this paper - without checking with either professor -- because you are writing a paper for a different professor and a different course?

False

Which of the following is a potential consequence of plagiarism? (select all responses that apply)

Receiving a zero for the course Being suspended or expelled from the college. Being sued by the author of the plagiarized, original work Having a college degree revoked after the fact

Which of the following is a requirement for including verbatim (word for word) information from an outside source? (select all responses that apply)

Set the passage off in quotes, or indent it if it is longer than a line or two of text. Cite the source and page number where you found the quote.

Original Text (found on page 18 of Standard & Poors Industry Survey on the Airline Industry by Jim Corridore): "The US airlines industry consumes about 19-20 billion gallons of jet fuel a year, so lower prices can drive significantly lower costs. For many years, jet fuel has been the largest cost category for most US airlines, making up about a third of the industry's profits." (Corridore, 18) Paraphrase: Airlines in America use about 19-20 billion gallons of jet fuel a year, so cheaper fuel prices can result in greatly improved costs. For a long time, jet fuel has been the greatest expense category for most airline companies in the US, comprising about a 33% of the industry's profits, (Corridore, 18)

Wording and sentence structure follow the source too closely.

Read this excerpt and the paraphrase and give your response to the question below. Original Text (found on page 18 of Standard & Poors Industry Survey on the Airline Industry by Jim Corridore): "The US airlines industry consumes about 19-20 billion gallons of jet fuel a year, so lower prices can drive significantly lower costs. For many years, jet fuel has been the largest cost category for most US airlines, making up about a third of the industry's profits." (Corridore, 18) Paraphrase: The American airline industry uses nearly twenty billion gallons of fuel annually, so discounted prices could drastically reduce costs. For a long time, fuel has been the greatest expense for most companies in this industry, accounting for nearly 34% of profits in the industry. (Corridore, 18). Which of the following criticisms of the above paraphrase is correct?

Wording and sentence structure follow the source too closely.

Your professor has recommended a particular text as a secondary source for an assigned essay on strategic planning. You find a quotation that seems to speak directly to what your professor has stated in class about strategic planning. You plug it in your paper, but it doesn't quite relate to what goes before and you don't know how to discuss it. You realize that you don't really understand what the quotation means, or how you might discuss it within the larger context of your essay. You think of approaching your professor to ask for help, but decide that she will think less of you for not grasping the import of this text. Instead you find a website that discusses this concept, and you summarize its explanation in your paper without citing it. Is this plagiarism?

Yes

Plagiarism is limited to taking something from a book or journal article; ideas may be taken from a movie, a professor's lecture, an interview on a radio news program, a web site or from a chapel speaker without the need to cite the source.

False

Which of the following strategies is helpful for avoiding plagiarism? (select all responses that apply)

Setting off short, verbatim passages in quotation marks Distinguishing, in your notes, between direct quotes, paraphrased passages, and your own ideas