Everytime you use another person's idea(s), you must provide a citation. Failing to do so is considered plagiarism. Essentially, plagiarism is stealing. It is the stealing of other people’s ideas without proper attribution. Even though plagiarism is not always intentional, it can harm the scholarly community. Find out how much you know about plagiarism in various scenarios by navigating through the slides.

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Should I cite it?

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hu/photo/1000337
Susan is overwhelmed by the amount
of work required for her classes this
semester. She has a 10-page paper
due tomorrow, and she has found an
article that supports the argument of
her paper topic. To save time, she
copies and pastes large sections of
the article into her paper without
proper citation.
Is this plagiarism?

3. Yes, it’s plagiarism!
Copying and pasting any
amount of information
without proper citation is
considered plagiarism.

4. Joe has almost completed his
argumentative essay for English 101.
He needs to write 250 more words to
complete the assignment requirement.
He finds a lengthy paragraph from a
book and pastes it into his essay. He
does not cite the article, but he does
put the paragraph in quotation marks.
Is this plagiarism?
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5. Yes, it’s plagiarism!
A proper citation was not
provided. Placing the work of
others in quotations is not
enough. Credit must be given
where it’s due.

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sxc.hu/photo/1108278
Gabriel’s professor recommended
an article to the class that
discusses solutions to global
poverty. For his research paper,
Gabriel writes about one of the
ideas from the article in his own
words without citing the article.
Is this plagiarism?

7. Yes, it’s plagiarism!
Even paraphrasing or writing
someone else’s ideas in your
own words, is considering
plagiarism if there is no
citation.

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sxc.hu/photo/1428308
Al finds a review of Shakespeare’s
The Tempest that was written in
1910. He recently learned that
anything first published before 1923
exists in the public domain and is
therefore not subject to copyright
law. In his review of The Tempest,
Al uses much of the analysis from
the 1910 review without citing it.
Is this plagiarism?

9. Yes, it’s plagiarism!
Don’t confuse copyright and citation.
Even if something exists in the public
domain for others to use freely,
students are required to cite it.

10. yenhoon.(2008).Capsule[jpg].Retrievedfromhttp://www.sxc.
hu/photo/1006559
This semester Kim’s professor asks
the class to write a paper on a topic
related to bioethics. Last semester,
Kim wrote a research paper on
religion’s role in bioethics. She
copies and pastes portions of her
previous paper into this semester’s
assignment without citing herself as
a source.
Is this plagiarism?

11. Yes, it’s plagiarism!
There is such a thing as self-
plagiarism, and there have been
students that have suffered
consequences for trying to reuse their
work.

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gov/pictures/item/ggb2004010997/
Amy created a poster to celebrate
Women’s History Month. In addition
to images, which she cited, she
included some text with common
knowledge about how women fought
to earn the right to vote in the United
States. She did not provide citations
for the text.
Is this plagiarism?

13. No, it’s not plagiarism!
Common knowledge does not need to
be cited. If you suspect the average
person knows about a fact or event,
you don’t need to cite it. However
when in doubt, cite it!