A student paraphrases information found on the Department of Education webpage. He does not use direct quotations or cite a source. Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
Yes
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A student writes the following in their paper: 25 percent of Americans do not know the earth revolves around the sun. They do not use quotation marks or cite a source. Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
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A student paraphrases information she found on the CDC website. She does not use any of the exact words or phrases from the website. She cites the CDC in her in-text citation but does not use quotation marks. Is this plagiarism?
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A student claims that most of the Earth's surface is made of water. He does not cite a source. Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
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A student writes the following: According to Bill Jones, renewable energy is a cost effective option. He does not use direct quotations. Is this plagiarism?
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A student writes 95% of a paper herself but copies and pastes one sentence from History.com. She does not cite the source or use quotation marks. Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
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A student uses part of a paper he wrote for a course last year. All outside material is cited and attributed. Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
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A student paraphrases information he found in Time Magazine. He does not copy and paste entire sentences, but one or two phrases are copied word-for-word and are not enclosed in quotation marks. However, he does include an in-text citation.
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A student's English teacher assigns a paper on The Crucible. Last year, the student wrote a paper on the Salem Witch Trials. She uses a paragraph from that paper in her introduction to her English paper. Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
yes
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A student copies and pastes a sentence from a source he found using the Gale Database. He uses quotation marks around the sentence but forgets his in-text citations on just that one quote. Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
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A student writes the following in her paper: Recent studies have indicated that global warming is happening. She does not use quotation marks or cite a source. Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?