Plagiarism Webquest Name: ____________________ Class Period: ________

Use the QR reader on your iPad or phone to scan the following QR codes. You will find the answers to the questions in this packet in the links the QR codes provide. If the QR reader has trouble, use the URLs to find your webpage.

What is Plagiarism?

http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism/

Plagiarism Facts & Stats

http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/facts-and-stats

Copyright Infringement Penalties

https://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/CopyrightBasics/penalties.html

NDSU Plagiarism Policy

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/scimath/AcademicMisconductProcedures.pdf

Harvard Cheating Scandal

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/education/harvard-says-125-students-may-have-cheated-on-

exam.html?_r=0

Plagiarism Prevention

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/03/

What is Plagiarism?

1. According the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to “plagiarize” means what? 2. What are the set of laws that protect people’s intellectual property and inventions? 3. Name three different acts that are considered plagiarism. Plagiarism Facts & Stats 4. In a survey of 43,000 high school students done by the Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics, how many admitted to using the Internet to plagiarize and assignment? 5. Rutgers University completed a separate survey of 24,000 students and found that what percent of students said they participated in some form of cheating, whether it was on a test, plagiarism, or copying homework? Copyright Infringement Penalties 6. What is the dollar range of fines that can be given in court to a copyright infringer (someone who plagiarizes)? 7. What is another penalty that can be sentenced to a copyright infringer? NDSU Plagiarism Policy 8. At NDSU, what are the potential penalties for cheating?

9. If a student takes a paper from the Internet and submits it as his or her own, and it is their first offence, what is the consequence? Harvard Cheating Scandal 10. How many students were found to have cheated on their final exam in the story about Harvard? 11. What was the penalty given to the students? Plagiarism Prevention 12. What are some ways to prevent plagiarism in your paper? (list at least two) 13. Do you need to cite the source even if you paraphrase or summarize?

Plagiarism Webquest Key Name: ____________________ Class Period: ________

Use the QR reader on your iPad or phone to scan the following QR codes. You will find the answers to the questions in this packet in the links the QR codes provide. If the QR reader has trouble, use the URLs to find your webpage.

What is Plagiarism?

http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism/

Plagiarism Facts & Stats

http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/facts-and-stats

Copyright Infringement Penalties

https://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/CopyrightBasics/penalties.html

NDSU Plagiarism Policy

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/scimath/AcademicMisconductProcedures.pdf

Harvard Cheating Scandal

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/education/harvard-says-125-students-may-have-cheated-on-

exam.html?_r=0

Plagiarism Prevention

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/03/

What is Plagiarism? 1. According the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to “plagiarize” means what?

To steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one’s own

To use another’s production without crediting the source To commit literary theft

To present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source 2. What are the set of laws that protect people’s intellectual property and inventions?

Copyright laws 3. Name three different acts that are considered plagiarism.

Possible answers include: Turning in someone else’s work as your own

Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks

Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit

Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

Plagiarism Facts & Stats 4. In a survey of 43,000 high school students done by the Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics, how many admitted to using the Internet to plagiarize and assignment?

One out of three 5. Rutgers University completed a separate survey of 24,000 students and found that what percent of students said they participated in some form of cheating, whether it was on a test, plagiarism, or copying homework?

95 percent! Copyright Infringement Penalties 6. What is the dollar range of fines that can be given in court to a copyright infringer (someone who plagiarizes)?

Ranges from $200 to $150,000 7. What is another penalty that can be sentenced to a copyright infringer?

Possible Answers: Infringer pays the dollar amount of damages and profits

Infringer pays for all attorney’s fees and court costs Court can issue an injunction to stop the infringing acts

Court can impound the illegal works Infringer can go to jail.

NDSU Plagiarism Policy 8. At NDSU, what are the potential penalties for cheating?

Warning and/or redo assignment with reduced grade 0 or F on assignment

F in course (+probation/rehab/community service) Suspension Expulsion

9. If a student takes a paper from the Internet and submits it as his or her own, and it is their first offence, what is the consequence?

F in the course (+probation/rehab/community service) Harvard Cheating Scandal 10. How many students were found to have cheated on their final exam at Harvard?

125 students 11. What was the penalty given to the students?

Suspension for a year Plagiarism Prevention 12. What are some ways to prevent plagiarism in your paper? (list at least two)

Possible answers: Reading & Note-Taking

Interviewing & Conversing Writing Paraphrases or Summaries

Writing direct quotations Writing about another’s ideas

13. Do you need to cite the source even if you paraphrase or summarize?

Yes, you still need to cite the source even if it’s in your own words.