Plagiarism Quiz

An in text citation refers to the practice of giving credit to the author within the paper. True or False

True

If you summarize information from another text, you have to cite it. True or False

True

You don't have to cite famous proverbs because they're common knowledge. True or False

True

Common knowledge needs a citation or it is plagiarism. True or False

False

Copying and pasting from the Internet can be done without citing, because everything on the Internet is common knowledge and so doesn't need citing. True or False

False

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

False

If you paraphrase the ideas of another person using your own words, you do not have to cite it. True or False

False

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

False

Song lyrics don't have to be cited. True or False

False

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

False

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

False

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. True or False

False