Plagiarism Test Questions and Answers
Already Graded A
Direct ✔✔"Direct plagiarism is the word-for-word transcription of a section of someone else's
work, without attribution and without quotation marks."
Accidental
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Plagiarism Test Questions and Answers
Already Graded A
Direct ✔✔"Direct plagiarism is the word-for-word transcription of a section of someone else's
work, without attribution and without quotation marks."
Accidental ✔✔"Accidental plagiarism occurs when a person neglects to cite their sources, or
misquotes their sources, or unintentionally paraphrases a source by using similar words, groups
of words, and/or sentence structure without attribution."
Intentional ✔✔Searching vs. Researching, "But their words are better", Making the Grade,
"Everyone else is doing it", Poor Planning
Mosaic ✔✔"Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when a student borrows phrases from a source without
using quotation marks, or finds synonyms for the author's language while keeping to the same
general structure and meaning of the original. Sometimes called "patch writing," this kind of
paraphrasing, whether intentional or not, is academically dishonest and punishable - even if you
footnote your source!"
Self ✔✔"Self-plagiarism occurs when a student submits his or her own previous work, or mixes
parts of previous works, without permission from all professors involved. "
Types to citation ✔✔MLA, APA, AP, CMS (Chicago), CBE
MLA ✔✔Modern Language Association: english and some humanities
APA ✔✔American Psychological Association: psychology and other social sciences
CMA (Chicago) ✔✔University of Chicago Press: history and some humanities
CBE ✔✔Council of Science Editors: Biological and earth sciences
AP ✔✔Associated Press
Public domain ✔✔A work of authorship is in the "public domain" if it is no longer under
copyright protection or if it failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection. Works in
the public domain may be used freely without the permission of the former copyright owner.
Anything published more than 75 years ago is now in the public domain. Works published after
1978 are protected for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years. Generally copyright protection
extended 28 years after publication plus 47 more years if the copyright was renewed, totaling 75
years from the publication date
fair use ✔✔Criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, parody, and research.
The nature of your use
The amount you've used.
The effect of your use on the original
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