ENGL 123 Week 5 Quiz 1

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Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise

Plagiarism is using someone else's words or ideas without giving credit. Most people understand that quoting word-for-word without using quotation marks or naming the source is plagiarizing, but many people do not know that plagiarism can occur even when writers put ideas into their own words, if those ideas were lifted from a source and not credited. And very few people understand how to avoid close paraphrasing, another form of plagiarism.

You might be wondering, "What do I not need to document?" You do not need to document common knowledge, information that is readily available in numerous general sources (i.e. dates, the number of months in a year, historical events, and the like). You should not document your thesis statement, your topic sentences, and your own insights and experiences. The best advice about avoiding plagiarism is: When in doubt, document.

Review the following pages in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association: 15-16 and 169-174.

Quiz Question Information: There are seven short answer questions. A couple questions will require your own ideas. There is no time limit; however, you may only take the quiz one time. This will be graded as a pass/fail activity. 

 You must complete this quiz by the fourth day of the module week. On the fifth day of the module week, your instructor will post the correct responses. You will need to review the quiz to compare your answers with the correct answers. Compare your answers and resolve any questions with your instructor.

Question 1

Name three different acts considered to be plagiarism.

Question 2

What is self-plagiarism?

Question 3

Why is it plagiarism to fail to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks?

Question 4

How might you avoid plagiarizing when you are summarizing or paraphrasing a source?

Question 5

Is the following passage plagiarized? Why or why not?

Question 6

Is the following passage plagiarized? Why or why not? 

Question 7

Plagiarism has been described as cheating. Who gets cheated when a person plagiarizes? (Name at least five individuals or groups and explain how they are cheated.)