InQuizitive Understanding & Avoiding Plagiarism

As a teenager, Leonardo da Vinci was an apprentice of Andrea del Verrocchio.

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You wrote a paper for an American history survey course for which your instructor asked you to use at least two secondary sources. You incorporated your sources by summarizing and paraphrasing the authors' main points. Because you summarized and paraphrased instead of using the author's exact words, you did not have to include parenthetical documentation.

False

Your sorority has a file of essays for all the writing assignments in your world history course and a system so that you can pay someone to turn in her paper as your own. Since you'd be paying the original author for her work, this is not plagiarism.

False

According to Baron, as we engage with a new technology, we go through several steps: we're by turns eager and enthusiastic, reticent and uncertain, until finally we incorporate it into our regular lives and change because of it.

Not plagiarism

Because writing is so imbued with "value-laden notions of literacy, art, and science, of history and psychology, of education, of theory, and of practicality," we forget that writing itself is a technology, until we are caught up in the excitement generated by a new technology (Baron).

Not plagiarism

Checking the list of ingredients reveals how McDonald's solved the problem: "natural flavor"—a common enough phrase that, as Schlosser notes, suggests but doesn't define exactly what it is.

Not plagiarism

In his essay "From Pixels to Pencils: The Stages of Literacy Technology," Dennis Baron stipulates that the act of writing itself is, above all, a technology.

Not plagiarism

In mid-December 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the successful leap from bicycle mechanics to airplane pilots when they successfully flew the aircraft they had designed and built. Although short, that 12 second, 120 ft. flight propelled them and their craft into history ("First Flight").

Not plagiarism

The Wright brothers piloted four flights on December 17, 1903, with Wilbur taking the control for "the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet" ("First Flight").

Not plagiarism

To get that distinctive flavor, McDonald's fried its potatoes in a blend of "about 7 percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef tallow"—which unfortunately also provided diners with an excessive amount of cholesterol (Schlosser).

Not plagiarism

Click on the sentence or sentences in the passage below that require documentation. Humans contract Lyme disease from a tick bite. Once the disease is diagnosed, it is fully treatable. #

Once the disease is diagnosed, it is fully treatable. #

Which of the following actions are examples of plagiarism?

Plagiarism > You included exact words from a journal article in your essay without putting the words in quotation marks, but you included parenthetical documentation. > Your friend already took the same introductory psychology course you're taking now, and she gave you permission to turn in her final essay from the previous term as your own. > You double-checked your lab report before you turned it in to make sure that you put quotation marks around all direct quotes, and you included all of your sources in your Works Cited or References list. Despite your best efforts, however, you forgot to include parenthetical documentation near the direct quotes. Not Plagiarism > You are writing an analysis of a sociological experiment. In your paper, you summarize (instead of quote) the hypothesis and findings of the original researchers. You include parenthetical documentation, and you also include the source in your Works Cited or References list.

Click on the sentence or sentences in the passage below that require documentation. London is the capital of England. The Greater London Authority predicts that Tower Hamlets in east London will grow the fastest.

The Greater London Authority predicts that Tower Hamlets in east London will grow the fastest.

You forgot to put quotation marks around a direct quote. But you read and signed your school's academic honesty policy, and you do not ordinarily go looking for other people's work to turn in as your own. So, even though you made a mistake, you did make an honest effort to follow the rules. In this case, you __________ accused of plagiarizing.

can be

Four United States presidents have been assassinated by gunshot while in office.

common knowledge

According to Eric Schlosser, McDonald's responded to a barrage of criticism over the amount of cholesterol in their fries by switching to pure vegetable oil in 1990.

plagiarism

McDonald's french fries have been favored by customers, competitors, and even food critics like James Beard, for a long time.

plagiarism

On December 17, 1903, one of the famous Wright brothers, Orville, flew the first mechanized airplane on a windy North Carolina beach.

plagiarism

Once they had achieved "glided flight," the brothers needed to find an engine to power their aircraft. They created their own because no viable engine already existed.

plagiarism

The life cycle of a new technology can be predicted by looking at the phases that other technologies have gone through because all new technologies tend to follow the same path: "after their invention, their spread depends on accessibility, function, and authentication."

plagiarism

The technology of writing frequently involves using cutting-edge tools to communicate, from the ancient practice of gouging lines into clay tablets to the modern use of energized particles on a screen (Baron).

plagiarism

This change provided the company with a big problem: how to make the potatoes taste like beef without cooking them in animal fat.

plagiarism

With its constant wind to add lift to their aircraft, the Wright brothers decided on the beach at Kitty Hawk for their testing ground ("First Flight").

plagiarism

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

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During lecture, your English literature instructor said William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" was, in part, "an early diatribe about animal rights." You wrote this phrase down while taking notes. It __________ plagiarism to use the phrase "early diatribe about animal rights" in an assignment for your philosophy class without crediting your literature instructor.

would be