Working with a partner, consider the following academic situations and decide if they are plagiarism.

No. Situation Plagiarism? Relevant Reasons

Yes/No
1 Copying a paragraph, but YES
changing a few words and giving
a citation.
2 Cutting and pasting a short article YES
from a website, with no citation.
3 Taking two paragraphs from a YES even if it is not published, we
classmate’s essay, without have to put citation
citation.
4 Taking a graph from a textbook, NO Because it is still included the
giving the source. source unless he/she does not
put the source/citation where
they take the graph from.
5 Taking a quotation from a source, YES
giving a citation but not using
quotation marks.
6 Using something that you think of NO
as general knowledge (e.g. the
ownership of mobile phones is
increasing worldwide).
7 Using a paragraph from an essay YES This case is called self-
you wrote and had marked the plagiarism
previous semester, without
citation.
8 Using the results of your own NO
research (e.g. from a survey you
did), without citation.
9 Discussing an essay topic with a YES/NO Plagiarism relates to both
group of classmates and using words and ideas. So if only
some of their ideas in your own
work.
using idea, it is not concluded
as plagiarism. The
classmates’ ideas might play
part as inspirations.
10 Giving a citation for some YES When the name is misspelt, is
information but misspelling the technically plagiarism, but
author’s name.
really carelessness.