This document discusses plagiarism, netiquette, and copyrighting. It defines plagiarism as copying and pasting a page or citation into a new document and claiming it as your own work. To avoid plagiarism, the author recommends citing sources, using quotation marks for direct quotes, and rephrasing information in your own words. The document also defines netiquette as the rules of conduct on the internet regarding privacy and appropriate behavior. It lists basic netiquette guidelines such as being respectful, keeping messages brief and on topic, and maintaining privacy. Finally, it states that copyrighting is when something is claimed as one's own work when it belongs to another, which should be avoided on the

1. PLAGIARISM, NETIQUETTE
AND COPYRIGHTING
BY: Bailey Batts
DATE: September 17, 2012

2. What is the exact definition of
plagiarism?
 The real meaning of plagiarism is when you take a page
or cite and you copy and paste it to a blank document
and claim it as yours.

3. How can you tell when something
is plagiarized?
 When someone
plagiarizes something,
they usually don’t look at
the cite very well, just
the information. They
will have big words that
you know a person there
age would not say. They
usually have more pages
then asked for also.

4. How can you avoid plagiarism?
 Well for starters, you can
put the links of your
information in the
reference page. Also if a
quote you want in your
project comes from a
web site, make sure to
put in quotation marks
and say who said it.
Make sure if you are
reading something, put it
in your own words
instead of using the
writers story.

5. What is the meaning of
Netiquette?
 The meaning of netiquette is basically the rules of the
internet. Basically it’s the safety rules that you must use
on the internet.

6. What are the rules of Netiquette?
 1. Don’t put anything on
the internet about
someone if you yourself
wouldn’t like it up there.
 2. Be careful about what
you say on the internet.
Anyone can see it and I
mean anyone.
 Don’t cyber bully anyone
PERIOD. Don’t do it face
to face either. Bullying is
wrong and you never
know what's going on.

7. The types of Netiquette
 Netiquette Basics
 The Netiquette of
Sending
 Netiquette of Replying
 Netiquette of
Confidentially

8. Netiquette Basics
 Help the newbies
 Research before asking
 Remember emotion

9. Netiquette of Sending
 Be brief
 Use white spaces
 Use descriptive subject
lines
 Stay on-topic
 Be careful sending
attachment
 Copy the minimum
number of people.

10. Netiquette of Replying
 Acknowledge important
communications
 Replying and forwarding
 Summarize for the group
 Check current
information before
replying
 Reference past
communications.

11. Netiquette of Cofidentially
 Don’t put other peoples
email addresses on the
internet
 Never send something if
you didn’t read it first
 Remember archiving

12. COPYRITING
 Copy writing is the basic problem of the internet. If a
cite is copy righted you should not claim it as your own.
You should never do that to a picture either. If is is not
yours then don’t claim it as yours.