Monday, February 3, 2014

Plagiarism Quiz (2/5)

Plagiarism Quiz 

(WORK INDIVIDUALLY and Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper)

1.Downloading a paper from the Web and turning it in is not plagiarism.
a.True
b.False

2.Pretend you wrote down the perfect statistics for your article. However, you don’t
remember where you found them. What should you do?
a.Go ahead and use them
b.Make up a source
c.Summarize them in the text of the paper
d.Find the original source

3.It’s okay to use anything you found on the Internet because it’s all in the public
domain and freely available.
a.True
b.False

4.If you paraphrase something you read in an article, do you still have to give the
source?
a.Yes
b.No

5.A student writes a paper that has many quotes–they make up perhaps 50-60% of the
writing in the paper. However, she cites each quotation and has a full list of
her references at the end of the paper. Is this plagiarism?
a.Yes
b.No

6.You can be failed for a course if you plagiarize.
a.True
b.False



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