Plagiarism

Brenda uses a quote from a website and documents her source with a reference list; she forgot put the quote in quotation marks.

Kim tried to cite a source but cited it incorrectly.

Eddie combines a paraphrase with quotes from his source; he uses a parenthetical reference and a bibliography to acknowledge his source.

While doing a research project, Lila writes down exact wording from a journal article in her notes; she forgets that the information is directly from a source and uses it in her project without putting it in quotation marks or re-wording it

Tenille pays her brother to do her Social Studies project for her.

Robert uses a quote from a book in his presentation; he puts the quote into quotation marks, but forgets to cite his source.

Natalie paraphrases several sentences from a website, cites them in-text and documents her sources by including a parenthetical citation and reference list.

Isa uses an AI to outline an essay for her. She uses it as a guide but cites all her sources and includes them in a reference list.

Bobby copy and pastes information from a website and deliberately changes the URL in his bibliography so that his teacher can’t find the site.

Lauren rewrites a paragraph without citing.

While working on a creative writing assignment, Rose takes characters and events from a popular TV show and uses them in her story.

Tommy uses an AI to write an assignment for him.

Zach copies a classmate’s assignment and hands it in.

Mike buys a research paper online and hands it in for his Biology course.

Henry finds a German essay online about the topic he needs for English class. He translates the whole essay and turns it in for English.

A senior gives Tim an essay for a class that Tim is taking now. Tim uses the essay by changing a few words and paragraphs around.

Frank takes a research paper on depression that he wrote for his Psychology class and hands it in for his English class without getting permission from his teacher.