Plagiarism quizlet

Define Fair Use.

Allows brief excerpts of copyrighted material to be used under certain circumstances.

What is Public Domain and how is it used?

Creative items that are not protected by copyright. Ideas, facts, etc.

What types of plagiarism exist?

Direct plagiarism, self plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, and accidental plagiarism. Direct is when you copy someone word-for-word and take credit. Self is when who plagiarize yourself like taking parts of your past assignments and putting them into your newer ones. Mosaic is when someone borrows phrases without putting quotations marks. Finally, accidental is when you plagiarize on accident.

What legal punishments can those who are convicted of plagiarism face?

Expelled from school, detention, getting zeros, failing, etc. Like punishment for 1st plagiarism is an automatic zero.

What published works are not copyrighted?

Facts, ideas, words, phrases, concepts, principles, and discoveries are not covered by copyright. For example, you can copy a fact.

What is your school's policy on cheating/plagiarizing?

First offense is automatic zeros. Secondly, contact parents and in school suspension.

How do you know if something is in the public domain?

If you look at the date, and it says its made before 1923, it will DEFINITELY be in the public domain. OR you can visit the copyright office in Washington D.C. is you live near, in, or planning to go there.

Find three ways to keep track of your sources while taking notes.

One way is to write down info about the sources. Another way is to screenshot the sources into your device. Finally, save an article that you find.

What is plagiarism?

Taking someone else's work, and taking credit for it. Like for example, Copying another person's paragraph, then claim it as their own.

Name five things that must be cited or documented.

They are opinions, predictions, quotations, statistics, and case studies. By writing the source of my data, it gives more credibility and accuracy.

Give a two-sentence summary of how turnitin.com works.

Turnitin.com is a service that checks and avoid plagiarism. It compares a student's writing among over a thousand websites to see if he/she is copying another person's writing.

What are your individual teachers' policies on cheating/plagiarizing? Do they have rules and consequences in place? If you don't know...ASK them!

Usually, it's the same rule as the school's policy. Also, it depends on a teacher's principle.

Indicate three ways you can cite a source in your work.

Ways you can cite a source are bibliography, footnotes, and reference list. Footnotes are comments usually listed at the bottom of the page, bibliography is the publisher, and reference lists are sources in the main part of an assignment.

Admit it. Name a time that you plagiarized or thought about plagiarizing (even if you didn't realize you were doing it.

When I was checking on a website for an assignment, I didn't realize I was doing plagiarism. Another time was when I was when cramming my project.

Name five things that do NOT need to be cited or documented.

Your words, ideas, original research, facts, and photos. These are information that doesn't need to be included.

What is Common Knowledge?

something known by most people

What is copyright?

the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.