Avoiding plagiarism exercise

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You have reviewed five general scenarios that involve plagiarism. Now it’s time to get specific. Do you know what the difference between paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting is, for instance? The following quiz is adapted from material from Purdue’s Online Writing Lab. Indicate Yes or No if you need to document each example below. If you do need to cite and reference your work, how should you do it? If you don’t, why not?

  1. You’re doing an “I-Search” paper and you’re writing about your own experiences.
  2. Someone wrote something in your school newspaper and you don’t agree with the point. You want to use it in some way.
  3. You borrow some information from a source, but you’re not using any quotations.
  4. You have a source that says it just right. You use the original source, verbatim.
  5. Someone said something to you at lunch last week and it has stuck in your head ever since. You see a way to work it into your essay.
  6. There’s a really good quotation you want to use, but it’s way too long. So you leave some of it out.
  7. Someone made up a really good phrase that captures just what you want to say. So, you use it.
  8. You wish you could include something someone wrote to you in an email recently.
  9. You had an experience last year during vacation with a friend and want to point out something you said at the time.
  10. You wrote a paper last year and want to include something from it in a paper this year.
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