Assignment #2

A. Fill in and sign the Plagiarism Awareness Contract (see other template)

B. Answer with a Yes or No if you think you need to document each example below. If you do need to
cite and reference your work, how should you do it? If you do not, why not?

1. As part of your research you are writing about your own experiences.

No, because it is my experience

2. You borrow some information from a source, but you are not using any quotations.

Yes

3. You have a source that says it just right. You use the original source, verbatim.

No, I will paraphrase

4. Your teacher said something to you last week and it has stuck in your head ever since. You
see a way to work it into your research.

Yes

5. You discover a really good quotation that you would like to use, but it is way too long, so you
leave some of it out.

Yes, by adding (…)

6. Someone made up a really good phrase that captures just what you want to say. So, you use
it.

Yes, by paraphrasing or by using quotations.