APA Plagiarism Tutorial

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* 1. Name:

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* 3. Which one of the following is NOT an example of plagiarism?

a. Mike took the same history class last semester that Kyle, his roommate, is taking this semester. So Kyle borrows Mike’s term paper from that class, and to avoid plagiarizing, he puts key passages of Mike’s paper into his own words, but keeps the main idea of Mike’s paper intact.

b. Claire has to write a paper on campaign finance reform for her Contemporary American Politics class. She finds a very professional-looking Website that offers papers, including ones on her topic, for only $7.95 a paper. She uses her own credit card and downloads a paper to turn in to her professor.

c. Lisa finds a passage written by a psychologist testifying to the positive effects of praise on children’s learning. She puts the passage in her paper word-for-word with quotation marks around it, writes the author’s name and the page number of the passage in parentheses after the quote, and cites the source on her “Works Cited” page.

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* 4. Which of the following IS an example of plagiarism?

a. Ginger’s professor assigned the class an essay on the influence of the Internet on communication. No sources are required for the assignment other than each student’s own interpretation of the topic. Ginger wants to do well on the assignment. So, she finds a well-written essay about this topic online using the Internet, copies the text into her paper, and hands the essay in to her professor.

b. Bob finds an article in a magazine on the topic of American trade with China. He decides to simply rewrite lengthy passages directly from this article into his paper since the topic is very similar to his own chosen topic for the assignment. He then turns the paper in to his professor.

c. Sean has to write a paper on the reasons for urban poverty in China for his sociology class. He finds a long passage in a book about poverty in the United States. He copies word-for-word the passage, but replaces some of the big words for simpler ones, and replaces all occurrences of the words “United States” with the word “China.”

d. All of the above are examples of plagiarism.

e. Only b. and c. are examples of plagiarism.

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* 5. Who is most likely to fail an assignment at Mitchell College for committing plagiarism?

a. Susan is in her first semester. Her professor has noticed that she has paraphrased a source too closely in that her paper is less her own voice and more a reflection of the ideas of the author of the original source.

b. Gary is in his second year at Mitchell College and has already taken and passed Freshman Seminar and EL101. He copied and pasted text from a psychology website into his paper and then handed the paper in to his psychology professor.

c. Samantha has written a paper for her speech class that she has to give orally in front of the class. Her sources are documented in a “Works Cited” page, and she has provided in-text citation throughout her paper in the places where her ideas were influenced by those particular sources.

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* 6. Which of the following represents correct in-text citation for the quote and information provided?

a. Mark LeVine calls writers like Friedman, Fukuyama, and Huntington, “the Axis of Arrogance and Ignorance” because LeVine believes their opinions all represent a similar type of pretentious naivety (LeVine, 2005, p. 27).

b. Mark LeVine calls writers like Friedman, Fukuyama, and Huntington, “the Axis of Arrogance and Ignorance” because LeVine believes their opinions all represent a similar type of pretentious naivety (LeVine).

c. Mark LeVine calls writers like Friedman, Fukuyama, and Huntington, “the Axis of Arrogance and Ignorance” because LeVine believes their opinions all represent a similar type of pretentious naivety (Why They Don’t Hate Us).

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* 7. Which of the following represents correct in-text citation for the paraphrase provided?

a. It would be unconstitutional for the government to prosecute the New York Times for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 because to do so would be in violation of the First Amendment (155-156).

b. It would be unconstitutional for the government to prosecute the New York Times for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 because to do so would be in violation of the First Amendment (War and Liberty).

c. It would be unconstitutional for the government to prosecute the New York Times for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 because to do so would be in violation of the First Amendment (Stone, 2004, p. 155-156).

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* 8. Which of the following is an example of common knowledge?

a. Ron Akers and Gang Lee have shown in their 1998 study of high school students that the well-established correlation between criminal drug use and age can be understood in the context of social learning theory.

b. The Colbert Report is more popular than the Late Show with David Letterman among 18-34 year old men, but the expense of maintaining its stars has Comedy Central worried about losing those stars to better contracts at other networks.

c. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects American citizens’ freedom of religion, speech (including that of the press), assembly, and the right of the people to petition the government to hear their grievances.