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Activity: About Plagiarism

Online Quiz

Use this document as an alternative to the online quiz.

Questions are presented first with answers and feedback in the appendix.

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Question 1 – Multiple answer multiple choice

Mark’s assignment contains the following passage. At which of the four points
are citations needed?

As long ago as 1963, Martin Luther King lamented that African Americans
were still living “on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of
material prosperity”. 1 For many, little has changed except that they have now
been joined by another minority group. 2 The 2010 census data in Table 1
clearly shows the gap between black and Hispanic Americans on one hand,
and their white and Asian countrymen on the other. 3

Table 1: US poverty rates by racial group in 2010 4

Racial group Black Hispanic Asian White
Poverty rate (%) 27.4 26.6 12.1 10

Question 2 – Yes/No

Laura decided to embed a video clip from Youtube into one of her oral
presentation slides. Does she need to acknowledge the source with a
citation?

a) Yes, the video is another person’s work.

b) No, Youtube is open access.

Question 3 – True/False

Cody does not need to cite the definition he included in his report because he
rewrote it in his own words.

a) True.
b) False.

Question 4 – Single answer multiple choice

Dammika wants to use some facts and figures from her psychology lecture
notes in her essay. The lecturer did not provide the source of the
information. She should:

a) Cite the lecture notes.

b) Try to find the same information elsewhere and cite that source.
c) Include the information without citing it.

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Question 5 – Yes/No

Mika writes the following in her project proposal:

This project will employ the methodology developed at the Institute of

Marine Chemistry [9] to test a fully-immersed sample of mild steel in-
situ.

Is the citation necessary?

a) Yes.
b) No.

Appendix: Correct answers and feedback

Question 1:
a) Correct. Point 1. Quotations must always be cited.
b) Correct. Point 4. The data in the table was obtained from a published
source, so must be cited.
c) Incorrect. Point 2. This is the writer’s comment, so no citation is
needed.
d) Incorrect. Point 3. This statement does not need a citation because it
tells the reader the conclusion drawn from the table; it does not contain
the data itself.

Question 2: (a) is correct.

Feedback: Any material created by another must be cited, regardless of

where you obtained it.

Question 3: (b) is correct.

Feedback: Any information obtained from a published source must be cited,

regardless of how you present it.

Question 4: (a) is correct.

Feedback: Dammika learned the information from the lecture notes, so she
should cite them.

Question 5: (a) is correct.

Feedback: The developer of the methodology must be cited.

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