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Avoiding Plagiarism

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Learning outcome: Completing this screen will help you to test your understanding of
the material covered in this course.

Which of the following sources would NOT require a clear reference and citation?

A science laboratory procedure that you read about in a recent journal article and have used for your latest
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A timeline of the First World War, which you have created by referring to the dates ofprint
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key battles and
events from a range of sources.
An infographic from a newspaper that you have critiqued in your essay.

A working theory on the causes of autism that you heard about at a conference and have mentioned in
your paper.
A YouTube video of an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet that you have used to inform your
interpretation of another recent production.

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism means using an incorrect or incomplete referencing system.

Plagiarism means intentionally passing off someone else's work as your own.

Plagiarism means passing off someone else's work as your own, and can be done intentionally or
unintentionally.
Plagiarism means breaching copyright.

True or false: An act of plagiarism is always also a copyright infringement.

True.

False.

What should you do when citing material that is protected by copyright?

In some cases (most commonly where images are involved), it's not enough to acknowledge someone
else's work; you also need to ask their permission to use it. This is the case with work protected by
copyright.
In some cases (most commonly where images are involved), it's not enough to acknowledge someone
else's work; you must also pay the copyright owner if you wish to use the work.
You are never permitted to cite material protected by copyright.

Two students are undertaking an assignment on the impact of population increase on natural
resources. The first student is finding the assignment difficult, so the second student gives him
a copy of his own assignment, which the first student uses as the basis for his own work. This
is:

Collaboration, because the students are working together to produce original ideas.
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Collusion, because the second student has allowed the first student to copy some of his words and ideas.

Self-plagiarism, because the second student's words and ideas will be reproduced in the first student's
essay.
Not plagiarism, because the first student has paid the second student to use his essay.

True or false: Because presentations are a more informal medium, the rules regarding
plagiarising them are not as strict.

True.

False.

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A student is beginning to research his dissertation. Which of the following optionshere to help
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Using a referencing tool (or reference manager) as soon as he starts his research to keep track of his
sources and insert correct citations and references in his work.
Using a referencing tool (or reference manager) once he has finished his research and is ready to write up
his dissertation.
Trying to remember all the different sources he has used and hope that he correctly cites and references
them when he writes up his dissertation.
None of the answers given: it is a lot of work to enter all the information in an online referencing tool and
it's not likely to be worth the effort.

Which of the following online sources would you need to reference?

News website.

Blog post.

Status update on social media.

Online journal.

All of the answers given.

A student has used a great many articles, books and websites to help research her dissertation.
She accidentally copies a direct quotation from her notes into her dissertation and does not
acknowledge the source, as she thinks that it is one of her own ideas. This is:

Paraphrasing.

Plagiarism, even though it was unintentional.

Not plagiarism, because it was unintentional.

True or false: Unintentional plagiarism is not as serious as intentional plagiarism.

True.

False.

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