Consequences of Plagiarism
What style guide do we use?
MLA 8 (the eighth edition of the Modern Language Association Style Guide)
You do the odd questions, and your friend does the evens. You trade answers.
Cheating. That's copying.
Students exposed at plagiarists may suffer severe penalties. Name two penalties.
Any of these: zero on the assignment, trip to the principal's office, letter to parents, possible suspension or expulsion.
What's it called when a student puts something like this into a paper: (Lewis 35)?
An in-text citation.
What mistake means some researchers accidentally plagiarize?
They do not keep good notes.
Your friend shows you where to find the answer in the textbook.
Not cheating. That's helping you do your own work.
DAILY DOUBLE! What does "Lewis" and "32" stand for in this citation: (Lewis 32)?
The author's last name, and the page number.
What are the three ways students could use someone else's ideas (with citations, of course)?
Summaries, paraphrases, and quotes.
Your friend lets you copy the answer to science questions.
True or false: Cheating damages teacher-student relationships.
True! We know you know better.
True or false: MLA style papers must be double spaced.
True!
How much of a paraphrase needs to be in your own words?
More than 90%. You can use specific vocab words.
You copy a vocab definition from the textbook.
Not cheating. That's the definition you're suppose to know.
What happens to college students who plagiarize?
They are generally expelled.
What's it called when a student makes a list of his sources and attaches it to his research paper?
A Works Cited page.
False. The structure of the sentence needs to be your own too.
You and your friend do homework together, and a few words in your answers are different.
Probably cheating, especially if the answers are long and there are only a few words that are different.