Plagiarism Scenarios
A student, who has once again procrastinated writing an essay for her psychology in law class, decides to reuse an old essay from another class she took last semester instead of writing a new one. What kind of plagiarism is this?
what is self plagiarism
A student completes a lab report and submits it for their biology lab and then decides to submit it for another lab class as well. What kind of plagiarism is this?
Self plagiarism
what is complete plagiarism
When making an infographic for a marketing class project, you copy paste an image from National Geographic directly into your poster without providing credit. What kind of plagiarism is this?
direct plagiarism
When writing your discussion post for a class, you suddenly begin recalling exact sentences from your assigned textbook reading. Without realizing it, you have completely copied parts of your reading into your discussion post. Your professor emails you stating that you plagiarized! You are completely surprised. What kind of plagiarism is this?
what is accidental plagiarism
You decide its time for you to finally write that essay you have due at 11:59pm! Unfortunately you are short on time and decide to weave clips of news articles into your own work without giving credit. What kind of plagiarism is this?
Patchwork plagiarism
A student is writes an essay. They do include citations in their writing, but upon further examination, there are absolutely no original thoughts provided. What kind of plagiarism is this?
what is mosaic plagiarism
A student writes and essay and cites all sources, but, they simply paraphrase every source and they provide no argument of their own. What kind of plagiarism is this?
Mosaic Plagiarism
Imagine yourself as a teacher. You are grading a student's paper and come to find that there are patches of copied pasted information from wikipedia (really? wikipedia?) that are woven into their own work. What kind of plagiarism is this? (hint: focus on the wording)
what is patchwork plagiarism
When writing a lab report, you include important information that you believe is common knoweldge because the professor taught in class and it was mentioned in your textbook reading. You decide this doesn't warrant a citation (wrong!). What kind of plagiarism is this?
Accidental Plagiarism