Plagiarism examples vs. correctly cited work (8th grade).

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🔍 Plagiarism is using someone else's work or ideas without giving them credit. It's like copying their homework and saying you did it!
• 📝 Correct citation means giving credit to the original author by using footnotes, endnotes, or a bibliography. Think of it as saying 'thank you' for using their ideas.
• 💡 Paraphrasing is putting someone else's ideas into your own words, but you STILL need to cite the source. Changing a few words isn't enough!
• 🌍 Common Knowledge: Facts that are widely known (e.g., the Earth is round) don't need to be cited. But if you learned it from a specific source, cite it!
• ✅ Direct quotes need to be in quotation marks and cited properly. Don't try to pass off someone else's exact words as your own!

🧪 Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following is an example of plagiarism?
   1. Using your own ideas and words.
   2. Citing a source properly.
   3. Copying a paragraph from a website without quotation marks or citation.
   4. Paraphrasing a source and citing it.
2. What does it mean to 'cite' a source?
   1. To ignore the source.
   2. To give credit to the original author or creator.
   3. To pretend you came up with the idea yourself.
   4. To only use the source if you agree with it.
3. Which of the following requires a citation?
   1. Common knowledge.
   2. Your own original thoughts.
   3. A direct quote from a book.
   4. The sky is blue.
4. What is paraphrasing?
   1. Copying word-for-word.
   2. Putting someone else's ideas into your own words.
   3. Ignoring the source material.
   4. Making up information.
5. Why is it important to cite your sources?
   1. To avoid getting a bad grade.
   2. To give credit to the original author and avoid plagiarism.
   3. Because your teacher told you to.
   4. To make your paper longer.
6. Which of the following is NOT a proper way to cite a source?
   1. Using footnotes.
   2. Using endnotes.
   3. Including a bibliography.
   4. Never mentioning where you got the information.
7. If you change a few words in a sentence from a book, do you still need to cite it?
   1. No, because you changed the words.
   2. Yes, because the idea still came from the book.
   3. Only if your teacher tells you to.
   4. Only if it's a very famous book.