Plagiarism
Aya’s Paragraph
Angela Lazypants is rushing to finish her paragraph about Google, so she decides to go over to Wikipedia and “learn” more about Google. She decided to, because Wikipedia is really hard to understand, copy the first paragraph of the article she found. When Angela turned in the paragraph, she did not give any credit to Wikipedia at all, and told her teacher that it was all her own original work. Is this plagiarism?
Not plagiarism
Lauren’s Paragraph
Sally was writing an essay about jobs in the Air Force. She learned that to be in the Air Force, you must have a Bachelor's degree and that’s how you be an officer and you have to be an officer to be a pilot officer. Different jobs in the Air Force, you can be a Pilot Officer,
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Bob is not quite an ace at turning homework in when it is due. Have you ever been in that situation? You don’t have to tell me if the answer is yes. Anyway, when his homework was to turn in a summary of the Lightning Thief, he decided to look up “Summary of the Lightning thief, and copied and pasted it. Is that plagiarism?
Not Plagiarism
BONNIE’S PARAGRAPH
Clara is writing a research paper about gum. She learned that gum was originally made from latex, a type of rubber. She got this information from http://www.gumassociation.org/index.cfm/facts-figures/fun-facts-about-gum/. Clara got a lot of evidence and facts about gum from this site. Before she started her essay she learned about plagiarism, and she knew that she cannot copy and paste without “citing” her sources. Citing sources means to show where you get your information, and Clara put all of the websites at the bottom of her page, but she isn’t sure if it’s plagiarism or not.
Plagiarism
NINA’S PARAGRAPH
Sofia was assigned to write a paragraph about her friend’s favorite sport. Her friend’s favorite sport is soccer. In PE class they had just recently finished a website about their favorite sport. Sofia used her friend’s website about soccer and just copied and pasted most of the website and turned it in the next day. Is this