Introduction
Plagiarism is the act of stealing information and passing it off as your own.
There are different types of Plagiarism:
1. Copying words or ideas from any source without giving them credit.
2. Submitting someone else's work, words or ideas as your own.
3. Failing to state your source of information.
4. Buying or stealing an essay or project.
5. Hiring someone to do your project.
How can a student avoid Plagiarism??
1. Giving credit to your source of information by writing a BIBLIOGRAPHY and doing INTEXT CITATIONS.
2. By PARAPHRASING : putting someone else's words into your own words and giving proper credit through INTEXT Citations.
3. By Quotation: placing direct words taken from a source in quotation Mark's (" ").
4. By using your own words.
Task
Instruction: given your knowledge of Plagiarism tell which of the following Scenarios are acts of stealing other persons information.
1. You are asked to summarize a chapter from your literature text book but instead you find one in the back of the text and copy it in your notebook without stating where you took it from. Is this plagiarism?
Yes
No
2. You find a Paper online that answers all the questions to your Assessment instructions and submit it as your Work. Is this plagiarism?
Yes
No
3. You and your friend decide to work on a project. Bbecause you are in two different grade 8 classes,with two different teachers you decide to print the same assignment and hand it in. Is this plagiarism?
Yes
No
4. Your cousin did the same SBA topic that you are doing last year. To save yourselfntime you copy and submit the same SBA as your own. Is this plagiarism?
Yes
No
5.You use information from the internet to complete your project, you copy and paste the information in your project, however,you write a bibliography to let your teacher know where you got the information from. Is this plagiarism?
Yes
No
6. Your science teacher assigns you to groups and gives you assignments to complete as a group. Your group completes the assignments and each member turns in a copy of the same assignment with individual names at the tops and group members name in the paragraph. Is this plagiarism?
Yes
No
7. Your friend has been sick for 3 weeks and their is an important assignment due. Your review your notes with her then gave her your assignment to copy and hand in.
Is this considered cheating?
Yes
No