Posted: March 21st, 2016

Identify instances of plagiarism and make recommendations for how to avoid it.

Plagiarism Activity
Senior Seminar

This activity focuses on plagiarism and how to avoid it. Specific learning goals include:
•    Identify instances of plagiarism and make recommendations for how to avoid it.
•    Develop a working definition of plagiarism by creating a list of generalization about academic integrity.
•    Make recommendations about what should be done to help others avoid plagiarism.
•    Practice paraphrasing.

Part 1. Identification. Decide if each of the scenarios  below is an instance of plagiarism.
A. Plagiarism
B. Not Plagiarism
C. Unclear

1.    You are describing a theory associated with a particular writer and cite the author.
Your answer:

2.    You are providing a rationale for siding with one side of an issue and do not use a citation.
Your answer:

3.    You are giving emphasis to a particular idea that has found a measure of agreement and support among commentators and do not use a citation.
Your answer:

4.    You do not provide a citation when stating or summarizing obvious facts, facts which are unlikely to provoke any significant amount of disagreement in your field or community.
Your answer:

5.    You are reading a book that includes an interesting idea but the source of the idea cited to another author. You cite the second author, not the author of the book.
Your answer:

6.    You copy and paste from the internet and no author’s name is shown so you just cite the web address.
Your answer:

7.    You are paraphrasing (in your own words) another person’s work that you feel is particularly significant and likely to be a subject of debate. You do not provide a reference because you paraphrased.
Your answer:

8.    You see a quotation on an Internet page without an author. You change a quite few words in the quote and put in your assignment without a citation.
Your answer:

9.    You see some something on an Internet site, an article from a named journal with a named author. You copy from the site into your assignment, and cite the journal article.
Your answer:

10.    You find a useful table on the Internet and copy and paste it directly into your assignment without a citation.
Your answer:

11.    You read a range of interesting summaries of different approaches to a subject on a number of Internet sites. You do not copy and paste, but you paraphrase in your own words and put the summaries in your assignment. You do not mention the website