Consequences of Plagiarism
Information Sharing
Unintentional Plagiarism
Forms of Plagiarism
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When professional writers, such as journalists, are exposed as plagiarists, what is likely to happen? 

Lose their jobs and compromise their credibility

100
What is information sharing? 

Documents on an array of subjects that are posted on the internet for the purpose of being shared. 

100

Is most plagiarism intentional or accidental? 

Accidental

100

The most blatant (obvious) form of plagiarism is to...

Obtain and submit as your own paper written by someone else. 

200

Student caught plagiarizing may suffer severe penalties. Name 2 examples. 

Fail the assignment

Fail the course 

Automatically fail the course 

200

As information sharing has become ________, so has _________. 

Easier; Plagiarism

200

Why does plagiarism sometimes happen to researchers?

They do not keep precise records of their reading, and they have forgotten whether their summaries are from quoted material. 

Keep your resources organized when writing papers! 

200

What are the two types of plagiarism? Provide an example of each. 

Accidental and Intentional

300

Students who plagiarize harm what? How? 

Themselves.

They miss out on opportunities to gain knowledge. 

300

With thousands of resources available to review, people often have to question the need to acknowledge what? Why is this? 

The author. The author could be biased and/or misinformed. 

300

To guard against the possibility of unintentional plagiarism during research and writing, it is important to keep careful notes that always distinguish three types of material: Your ideas and your summaries/paraphrases.

What is the third? 

Exact wording you copy from sources. 

300

Suppose, for example, you want to use material from a well-known book for your research paper. You find a few sentences that would be perfect in your essay, but you have too many direct quotes and don't want to include any more; therefore, you decide to paraphrase the wording. How would you avoid plagiarism in this situation?

Include an in-text citation and document the source in your works cited.

400

Students who use AI to write a paper are 'working smarter, not harder' and should not be penalized. 

FALSE

400

When it comes to information sharing, what is it that students are often misinformed about? 

When a student buys a paper or has AI write it, they think it is their own, but it is the same as buying a book. It must be cited. 

400

Saying you didn't know you had to cite your sources is a valid excuse for plagiarizing? 

Nope! 

Even if the assignment directions don't explicitly say to cite your sources, you should always give credit to anyone's work you use. 

400

Other less conspicuous (noticeable) forms of plagiarism include the failure to give appropriate acknowledgement when . . . *Provide 1 out of the 3 examples.

1) Repeating or paraphrasing another's wording 2) Taking a phrase 3) Paraphrasing another's argument or presenting their thinking.

500

I can only plagiarize written work? 

False. Images, equations, etc. could all be plagiarized. 

CREATE YOUR OWN WORKS! 

500

It is ok for you to share a paper you wrote in your CORE 179 class with your friend to turn in for their Philosophy class? 

No!!!!!!! 

500

Another kind of unintentional plagiarism happens when....?

Students wait until the last minute to complete assignments. 

500

TRUE/FALSE: Running your paper through a spellcheck program such as Grammarly, for example, will not be tagged as AI. 

FALSE...Some AI detection software flags spellcheckers as utilization of AI.

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