Research Skills Tutorial

Module 2: Copyright and Plagiarism

Review Questions

Plagiarism is:

	A) copying verbatim someone's material from a book or journal article without providing a citation to the original work.
	B) paraphrasing an author's work without giving the author credit.
	C) photocopying an article in the library without the author's permission.
	D) quoting someone in a paper or project and providing a citation to the original work in the text of the paper.
	E) a and b.

If you quote someone's work word-for-word and provide a citation to a work in the reference list at the end of a paper you have given sufficient credit to the author.

	A) True
	B) False

Materials obtained from a Web site that do not include an author for the work do not have to be cited.

	A) True
	B) False

The easiest way to avoid plagiarism is to give credit when you use someone's idea or words.

	A) True
	B) False

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