Name: Miguel Huerta Date: 10/23/2020 Period:6

WPHS Science Research Program

Plagiarism
SWBAT: Use internet articles to learn about the consequences of plagiarism.

DUE DATE: Friday October 23 11:59pm

DO NOW (individually): Take the plagiarism internet quiz below.

Quia Plagiarism game:
https://www.quia.com/rr/634467.html?AP_rand=999818860&playHTML=1

Lesson: Internet Activity

• Use the internet to find 2 published news articles that discuss incidences of plagiarism since
2010 (last 10 years only).
• Read the articles to find and complete the information requested below.
• Include links to the articles in the space provided.
• Save your work as a .pdf file and upload to Schoology

Tip: try nytimes.org and search “plagiarism”

Article 1 Article 2
Article #1 Article #2
Link to online article

Title: Germany’s Plague of Title: Paper admits to Plagiarism by

Plagiarism Reporter
Title of article & Date of publication: March 12, Date of Publication: March 16, 2011
Date of publication 2013

Helmut Schmidt, a former German The Washington Post had to post

Chancellor, was admired with his
Summary of key title as “Herr Burgermeister” and
points of the article Herr Doktor”. Despite this, German
politics has been rocked by a
series of plagiarism allgations from
former defense minister, Mr.
Guttenberg and former minister of
education, Ms. Schavan.
Former German Defense Minister,
Describe the Mr. Guttenberg, was caught
incidence of plagiarizing parts of his doctoral
plagiarism. What did dissertation.
the offender do that
was considered
plagiarism?
an editor’s note to apologize for one
of their reporters plagiarizing in two
of her articles. She plagiarized from
The Arizona Republic by not citing
them despite the fact she had
striking similarities in 10 to 12 of her
paragraphs. She later paid the
consequences that were, according
to the spokesman of the
Washington Post, “immediate,
severe and appropriate”.
Sari Horwitz, a reporter at the
Washington Post used material from
The Arizona Republic without
properly crediting the newspaper or
citing it as a source for two articles.
 The University of Bayreuth According to the article, the
rescinded his doctorate which lead spokeswoman for the Washington
What were the to Mr. Guttenberg to leave politics. Post said that the action that was
consequences of this taken against Ms. Horwitz was
plagiarism incident? “immediate, severe and
appropriate”.

Plagiarism can make you lose Plagiarism doesn’t have to be word

What did you learn your job and it’s not only an for word. All it takes is for someone
from reading this academic crime. to notice “striking similarities” and
article? then you could be caught for
plagiarism.